ICYMI: Scientists plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to learn about all phases of the universe's history dating back to just after the Big Bang event about 13.8 billion years ago, while also studying exoplanets as well as worlds closer to home
Scientists plan to use the telescope to learn about all phases of the universe's history dating back to just after the Big Bang event about 13.8 billion years ago, while also studying exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - as well as worlds closer to home such as our planetary neighbor Mars and Saturn's moon Titan.
"We're looking forward to this and we're getting very, very close," said Greg Robinson, Webb's program director at the U.S. space agency's Washington headquarters.in October after a 16-day sea journey from California through the Panama Canal to Port de Pariacabo on the Kourou River. After launch, it will deploy on a month-long million-mile journey to a more distant orbit than Hubble, beyond the moon.
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