The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most technologically challenging space telescope ever built. The Webb Telescope is so large; it must be folded like origami to fit inside its rocket fairing for the ride into space. Once in space, unfolding and readying Webb for science is a complex process that will take about six months. Webb is designed to see the most distant galaxies in the Universe and study how galaxies evolved over cosmic time. Webb will study planets orbiting other stars looking for the chemical signatures of the building blocks of life. Webb will also study planets within our own solar system. The Webb Telescope Mission is an international space telescope program led by NASA with its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. This video won third-place honors for Videographer of the Year 2019 in the Production category for Michael McClare.
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Mission_Overview_MASTER-h264
Date Created
June 12, 2020
Center
GSFC
Media Type
video
Photographer
Michael McClare
Location
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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