From Perseverance to the James Webb Space Telescope launch, here are the best images of a truly extraordinary year for space exploration.
Credit: NASA, ESA, V. Ksoll and D. Gouliermis , et al.; Processing: Gladys Kober At 7:20 am Eastern on December 25, the James Webb Space Telescope hitched a ride on the Ariane-5 rocket, lifting off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Over the next several weeks, the biggest space telescope of all time will make its way to its final destination: aknown as Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 , which is nearly 1 million miles away from Earth.
Above is the final view of the scope before leaving Earth’s orbit.is the Science Editor at Popular Science. She has a particular interest in brain science, the microbiome, and human physiology. In addition to Popular Science, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Scholastic’s Science World and Super Science magazines, among others.
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