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The start of a blockbuster astronomy mission. james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe. inside this rocket is the biggest telescope ever sent into space. punching a hole through the clouds. 20 seconds into the flight... this is the james webb space telescope. its a successor to hubble, but 100 times more powerful. after three decades in the making, and a cost of $10 billion, its finally on its way. weve never attempted anything like that in space before. were going to be ente...

This is the james webb space telescope. its a successor to hubble, but 100 times more powerful. after three decades in the making and a cost of $10 billion, it is finally ready to launch. weve never attempted anything like that in space before. we are going to be entering a whole new regime of astrophysics! a new frontier! and that is what gets so many of us excited about james webb space telescope. this space telescope is a feat of engineering. at its heart is a 6.5m—wide mirror, made up of 1...

Astronomy mission. james webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe. inside this rocket is the biggest telescope ever sent into space. punching a hole through the clouds. 20 seconds into the flight... this is the james webb space telescope. its a successor to hubble, but 100 times more powerful. after three decades in the making, and a cost of $10 billion, its finally on its way. weve never attempted anything like that in space before. were going to be entering a whole new regime of ...

This space telescope is a feat of engineering. at its heart is a 6.5 metre—wide mirror, made up of 18 hexagonal segments, each coated in a layer of gold. its size means it can detect the incredibly faint light coming from the most distant stars. it also has a huge sun shield, about the size of a tennis court. its made up of five layers, each as thin as a human hair, and this protects the telescope from the heat and light of the sun. sitting a million miles away from the earth, the telescope wi...

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Will go beyond earths orbit — 930,000 miles into deep space. once in space, it unfurls its sunshield and deploys its giant mirror and instruments. the space telescope is much more powerful than hubble. itll be able to analyse the atmospheres of worlds orbiting distant stars to see if there are signs of life. itll also be able to witness the birth of the very first stars. this is a simulation of that critical moment. the purple areas are clouds of hydrogen gas becoming ever denser until they fo...

Looked right after the big bang. how cool is that? heres mark strassmann. >> reporter: from the perch a million miles beyond earth, the james webb telescope will glimpse the dawn of tame like nothing before us. >> the universe is a 13.8 billion story and were missing key paragraphs in the very first chapter. >> reporter: n.a.s.a. astro physicist amber straughn hopes webbs discoveries will fill in in blanks. >> we hopefully will be able to see the galaxies for the first time. >> reporter: the gol...

Rebecca morelle has more. its taken 30 years to develop, cost more than $10 billion and has involved thousands of scientists. now the james webb space telescope is finally ready to launch to begin the most ambitious astronomy mission ever attempted. this telescope is absolutely the biggest and most complex and most powerful telescope that weve ever attempted to send to space. all of us astronomers are extremely eager to get this telescope into space. but i think its going to work and i think its...

Giant mirror and instruments. the space telescope is much more powerful than hubble and it will be able to analyse the atmospheres of worlds orbiting distant stars to see if there are signs of life. it will also be able to witness the birth of the very first stars. this is a simulation of that critical moment. be purple areas are clouds of hydrogen gas becoming ever denser until they form the star is. blazing like fireworks. james expected to capture images of this really happening. i capture im...

As you can see from that image in my background, the mirror is not one single mirror. its 18 segments, all hexagonal and we can fold the edge elements around the side of the telescope and the instrument package so that it fits. so thats a very new approach to d doing this. >> just fascinating. this was first imagined, i was reading, as a successor to hubble in 89. this took thousands of scientists, technicians, engineers, 14 countries, i think i saw, to build this. what does this launch represen...