JWST

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope to date. 

NASA’s infrared space observatory, launched on Dec 25, 2021, from ESA’s launch site at Kourou in French Guiana, at 7:20 a.m. EST (1220 GMT; 9:20 a.m. local time in Kourou), aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket. 

The $10 billion James Webb Telescope is probing the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to exoplanet formation and beyond. It is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, huge space instruments that include the likes of the Hubble Space Telescope that peer deep into the universe.