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THE TELESCOPE<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The James Webb Space Telescope sits in front of the door to Chamber A, a giant thermal vacuum chamber located at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA\/Chris Gunn.<\/p><\/div>\n

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful space telescope ever built. Its four instruments, one of which was developed by Canada, will enable breakthrough discoveries in a number of fields of astronomy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Launch date:<\/span><\/b> December 25 2021
\n<\/span>Estimated mission lifetime:<\/span><\/b> 10+ years
\n<\/span>Status:<\/span><\/b> Commissioning underway
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Webb has been in development since the late 1990s and was launched on December 25, 2021 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on an Ariane 5<\/a> rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JWST Deployment Sequence<\/a><\/h4>\n

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s next-generation space observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb Telescope will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies formed and see unexplored planets around distant stars.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n