Five things you need to know about the powerful James Webb telescope which was launched into space months ago

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world a glimpse of space as it existed when the first galaxies formed, was launched last Saturday by the Ariane 5 rocket off the northeast coast of South America, opening a new era in astronomy.

According to the Croatian portal tportal.hr, these are the five things to know about the Webb Telescope:

  1. The James Webb Telescope (JWST), named after the man who led NASA during the 1960s, will take a month to reach its destination in solar orbit about a million and a half kilometers from Earth, about four times the distance from the Moon.
  2. The telescope is a hundred times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope and is expected to profoundly change the meaning of the universe and man's place in it.
  3. The telescope will be able to capture space objects we have not been able to see until now - the first stars and galaxies that formed in the early days of space, when it was only about 100 million years old.
  4. The main telescope, which consists of 18 gold-plated hexagonal beryllium segments, has a much larger area for collecting light.
  5. In addition to looking for the formation of stars and earlier galaxies, astronomers will be able to are to study supermassive black holes believed to occupy the centers of distant galaxies.

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