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TELESCOPE
It is a space observatory
developed through the

collaboration of 14 countries,

SPACE
built and operated jointly by
the European Space Agency,
the Canadian Space Agency
and NASA to replace the
Hubble and Spitzer Monserrat Barajas Horta
telescopes. The JWST offers

Within the great scientific

harvest that 2022 has
brought, one milestone has
stood out above the rest: the
launch of the James Webb
unprecedented resolution and
sensitivity, and enables a wide
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range of investigations in the Group: 608
fields of astronomy and
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cosmology.

telescope into orbit. It is the

most powerful space
observatory ever conceived,
and it is designed to make
revolutionary discoveries that
will mark a new era in
astronomical research.
telescopio espacial James
Webb

CHARACTERS because it is important?

Among its main technical
characteristics, it is worth According to NASA, "The
highlighting the primary mirror James Webb will explore all
of JWST, made up of 18 phases of cosmic history
hexagonal segments that, and help humanity
combined, create a mirror with understand the origins of
a diameter of 6.5 meters, a the universe and our place in
great increase by far over the
it."
mirror used by Hubble, of 2 .4

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meters,

The James Webb Telescope

was successfully launched
on December 25, 2021,
aboard an Ariane 5 rocket,
from the French Guiana
base.
In development since 1996, initially
named the Next Generation Space
how does it work?
Telescope, or NGST, it was
renamed James E. Webb in 2002,

The James Webb is equipped with a

6.5 meter wide mirror and 4 very
after the U.S. government official high sensitivity instruments. What
who was NASA administrator from the telescope does is focus on a
1961-1968 and played an integral very small space in the sky for days,
role in the program. Apollo. The trying to detect light that has been
project has experienced numerous
traveling through the vastness of
delays and overspending,
space for more than 13.5 billion light
undergoing major redesign during
years.
2005.