Most sophisticated telescope ever built getting ready for launch

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most complex and sophisticated telescope built by humans. It will observe light from the earliest stars, the most distant objects, and hunt for signs of life on exoplanets. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh explains what we know about JWST and why some astronomers are unhappy with its name.
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Supplementary reading:
JWST Fact Sheet https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/assets/documents/WebbFactSheet.pdf
The James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to Hubble, is mired in controversy over its namesake. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/james-webb-space-telescope-nasa-controversy/620445/
Webb Spinoffs https://webb.nasa.gov/resources/JWST_spinoffs_v122011.pdf
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