James Webb Space Telescope over Earth

Discover the universe! Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by an astronomer.

December 26th, 2021.
The James Web Space Telescope is shown in the featured image.
Just after it was released by the upper stage.
The Arianespace rocket was launched yesterday.
December 25th
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

The space telescope is on Earth.
The image is from Arianespace, NASA, CSA, and CNES.

There's a new telescope in space. The James Webb Space Telescope has a mirror over five times larger than Hubble's and can see better in the dark. The picture shows the JWST high above the Earth after it was released from the Ariane V rocket. The Sun-Earth L2 point will be where the JWST will co-orbit the Sun with the Earth over the next month. During this time and for the next five months, the JWST will test its scientific instruments and its mirror. If everything goes well, the JWST will start looking at the universe and planets in the summer of 2022.

The gallery is about the launch of the space telescope.
Tomorrow's picture is comet webb.

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Discover the universe! Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by an astronomer.

December 27th, 2021.
The featured image shows Leonard and the rising.
The James Web Space Telescope was launched by the Ariane V rocket. The image was taken in Thailand.
December 25. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Leonard is behind the launch Plume.
Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT) has a credit and a copyrighted image.

Which one of the two streaks is a comet? The lower streak is the real comet, even though they both have comet-like features. This lower streak shows the coma and tail of comet Leonard, a city-sized block of rocky ice that is passing through the inner Solar System. The comet will travel around the Sun next week. The comet is visible to the eye, but has developed a long tail in recent weeks. The Ariane V rocket's upper streak is the one that lifted the James Webb Space Telescope off the Earth. A single-exposure image was taken from Thailand, and it shows a pagoda in Doi Inthanon National Park. The largest and most powerful space telescope in NASA's history will be launched in the summer of 2022.

The gallery is about Leonard 2021.
The space telescope launch is on December 25.
The sun is on ice.

Robert Nemiroff is an author and Jerry Bonnell is an editor.
Phillip Newman has specific rights.
NASA has a privacy policy on the internet.
There is a service at NASA.
& Michigan Tech. U.