NASA fully deploys world's most powerful telescope in space

James Webb, the successor to Hubble, blasted off in an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on December 25, and is heading to its orbital point, a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.Its infrared technology will allow it to see the first stars and galaxies that formed 13.5 billion years ago

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