5 unknown facts about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

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Here’s everything you need to know about NASA’s most powerful James Webb Space Telescope

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most complex known space-based telescope.

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It was launched into space on December 25, 2021, making it one of the latest technological space telescopes.

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Here are five unknown facts about NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

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The James Webb Telescope was built to capture infrared light which is not visible to the human eye, making it capture deep space images.

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James Webb Space Telescope has four primary goals: first light in the universe, galaxies in the early universe, the birth of stars and protoplanetary systems, and planets

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The Webb Telescope has the ability to look at the beginning of the universe, which was 13.7 billion years ago.

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The telescope is protected with 5 layers of sun shield to protect its types of equipment from harmful rays and materials.

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With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists were able to locate the earliest galaxy ever observed which was formed 290 million years after the Big Bang

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