After more than 30 years in the making and numerous delays, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finally launched from an Ariane 5 rocket on Christmas Day last year.
The $10B observatory, as large as a tennis court, is the most powerful telescope ever built. The launch began a one-month journey of the JWST to its final parking orbit, some 940,000 miles away from Earth.
JWST is considered the next chapter in space-based telescope astronomy and the highly anticipated (and much larger) replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope.
