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Judi Lynn

(162,384 posts) Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:18 PM Jun 2023

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission -- Live updates

By Elizabeth Howell
Contributions from Daisy Dobrijevic
published about 7 hours ago

(Image: © NASA)
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the agency's successor to the famous Hubble telescope, launched on Dec. 25, 2021 on a mission to study the earliest stars and peer back farther into the universe's past than ever before.

Webb is currently at its observing spot, Lagrange point 2 (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km). It is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.

Space.com is sharing live updates about the new space observatory's mission here.

More:
https://www.space.com/news/live/james-webb-space-telescope-updates