The agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful telescope built to date, successfully blasted into orbit Saturday.
to investigate a faulty data cable and more recently because of bad weather at the South American launch site.
The risky, carefully choreographed maneuvers are so complex and require such precision that NASA nicknamed the sequence “29 days on the edge.” Telescopes essentially function as time machines because it takes time for light to travel through space. This means that when Webb studies light from the most distant galaxies in the cosmos, the telescope is actually observing how the universe was billions of years ago.The Webb telescope is designed to “see” beyond the range of the human eye and other telescopes that observe primarily visible light.
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