James Webb Telescope :
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- The telescope is name after James E.Web,who was the administrator of NASA an integrall role on the apollo program(1961 to 1968).
- On its missionto help scientists understand the origins of universe and earth like plannets beyond our solar system ,james webb Telescope was blastedoff into its orbit.
- This is the world's most powerful telescope.
- It was built by NASA contributions from the European Space Agency(ESA) and the Canadian space agency(CSA).
- Webb is the successor of the Hubble telescope.
- It will give scientists an opportunity to observe
- formation of stars and planets
- explanetary systems,and our own solar system
- It will operate from a nearly distance 15,00,000 km away from earth.
- The telescope element consists of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of gold palted baryilium