, fully deployed into its magnificent final form. Like a butterfly leaving behind its Earth-bound caterpillar shape, a new, larger and more beautiful observatory transformed over the course of a weeks-long journey in space. Now, from its new vantage point nearly 1 million miles away, it will scan the skies for years to come, offering us a never-before-seen view of the universe.
The complexity of this transformation cannot be overstated. A tennis-court-sized, five-layer sunshield unfurled with incredible precision. The secondary mirror then extended out on a 24-foot-long tripod. And on Jan. 8, the team finished unfolding the— composed of 18 gold-colored, honey-comb-like hexagons spanning 21.3 feet across altogether.
To the untrained eye, breakthrough innovation and exploration looks awfully close to crazy and impossible. The original goal was to look back in time over 13.5 billion years to observe the first galaxies and stars in. And while we had many supporters, we also had many people, right from the beginning, who thought it couldn’t be done. Simply having the courage to set that lofty, outrageous goal some 25 years ago — that, right there, was the first show of daring from this mission.
A team then had to take that vision and turn it into reality: the biggest, most powerful, most complex space science observatory the world has ever seen. To do that, we needed inventors and implementors. We needed visionaries and leaders who focus on realism of technology, schedule and cost. We needed both decades-long experience and youthful, unfettered enthusiasm.
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE in Lagrange 'L2 orbit' JAMES WEBB telescope IMAGES
Good job
Zervastro
Congratulation NASA teams well done
Good job I'm very proud of all of you
I call it Jimmy Webb cause that was my favorite Uncle's name. Congratulations crew! Great, great work!
Woo Hoo!!
If we are vibrational beings and everything on earth is vibrational , would it be possible to use sound frequency’s to move aircraft ie alien ships ? Would this then allow us to phase in and out of our reality ?
💙👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💙
Amazing good luck 2 ALL !
Awesome can’t wait
Congrats 🥳
Ces gens sont incompétents pour la plupart, ça a été trop long, avec un bon ordinateur il aurait été possible d'aller beaucoup plus vite j'aurais même pu le faire
Молодцы
Best wishes from INDIA James veb will find Allan's We must pray for it to happen
Congratulations
Is anyone here trying to figure out which OS NASA is using?
Jeeezzz. They work in outer space and THEY STILL WEAR A MASK!
NASA Latest: Webb telescope will not be publishing via Spotify.
What a great Christmas present for us all!
❤💃🌌🔭
this is awesome!! 👏
Yay team!
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👏👏👏I’m grateful for the team’s impressive accomplishment in development and successful launch of James Webb. Can’t wait for new discoveries.
realroyhuff Home, home at LaGrange Where the aliens and the telescopes play Where seldom is seen a discouraging scene And space is not cloudy all day. 😎
Beautifully written.
Is that BernieSanders in the lower left?
I'm watching my emails. Im hope the doetchlanders and privjet Russians. And de espana y Mexicans all can see things we are doing. For space. It will inspire. Stay safe. As always. J.
Nasa kicks ass y'all are the best go JAMES WEBB
You still won't be able to stop asteroids from hitting earth! because God already warned mankind pretense! Falling star, wormwood and falling mountain! Smart but don't believe!
Yeah it is all about the space station yahoo🚀🚀🚀
Do I see SenSanders
👏👏👏👏👏👏🍀🍀🌻🌻🌻🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
Horrah!
The James Webb Space Telescope is impressive, but nothing compared to the Death Star 1 and 2.
Why The James Webb Telescope Will Likely Discover ALIEN Life
ما خلقه الله سبحانه عليك أن تكتشفه🌺 وما صنعه الإنسان عليك أن تطوّره 🌹🌲🌹خالد علي نجيب
Congratulations 🎉👏
блядь , дежавю
SALUTE to all the team. New horizons ahead!🏁👃
Yeah yeah..Disclose the alien news & information already NASA!
Hooray! and Congratulations! to them. So impressed with how smooth this mission has gone.
🎉🎉
so proud of NASA
Very exciting!
Where are pictures?
Did you take the lens cap off?
Amyn. Congratulations! I very much enjoy the beautiful pictures, news, and look forward to many more.
Phenomenal achievement. Well done 👏 NASA
That'd be me filming had you re-hired me. Congrats you all. I'm still there in spirit.
S-A-L-U-T-E!
The amount of fist pumps we've been seeing from NASA lately, you'd they'd start jazzing them up a bit. Can we see simultaneous first pumps, perhaps with matching two tone color outfits please?
Congratulations on a fantastic achievement
Looking forward to seeing what it sees.
Great day!
😁👍 🥻
I only know of a tiny amount of the work that went into this wonder and I am in awe of all involved. Can’t wait for the data to start rolling in!
why is BernieSanders in the control room?
Congrats!
Sall a conspiracy dude. Snickers bars have been laying alien monkeys in your nose and that's what COVID is. Yessir the apple asian moneys.
Ad astra!
congratulation!
What's about calibration?
So what you’re saying is it’s got a long weekend? Or maybe a holiday weekend…🤔
_TrevorC cannot wait to look at space!!! redweb?
congratulations!
👍Congratulations!!!
Congratulations to Webb telescope team for the monumental advancement in astronomy and exploration of Universe secrets.
cant wait to see the first picture 😃😃😃
I love space science really need someone that will get me there.
I love you NASA
I love the fact that they’re still fans of the ‘super S’ from school.
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Congratulations! We’ll be served with breathtaking images from the Universe
Congrats to all the team. Greatest work I ever heard of.
Brilliant minds. Thank you for all you do
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