let s cross to canada now and speak to daryl haggard an associate professor of physics at mcgill university in montreal. thanks forjoining us. thanks for joining us. just thanks forjoining us. just how momentous was this for you? extraordinarily exciting. this telescope is amazing. it is one of the most impressive instruments we have ever launched into space and to see it not only launched so successfully but then also unfurl and deploy all of these complicated elements and come online, slowly but surely, the way we all hoped it would, is truly exciting for everyone in our community across the whole entire globe. we are looking at pictures of the launch now. that today was all about the mirror opening up and the thing that lots of people but was going to go wrong. if anything was going to go wrong, it was going to be today. h0. was going to go wrong, it was going to be today. going to be today. no, come now, going to be today. no, come now. we going to be today. no, come now, we h
for coronavirus. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test since the pandemic began. it s the first country in western europe to reach the figure. the newjames webb space telescope has fully deployed in space the final step of its two week deployment phase that began with its launch on christmas day. nasa will now begin to latch the wing into place. the observatory is on a mission to study the very first stars to shine in the universe. many of its components had to be folded to fit inside the launch rocket. 0nce unfurled, the golden primary mirror, the largest astronomical reflector ever sent into space, will allow the telescope to be properly focused. its great size will enable scientists to see the faintest objects from the farthest reaches of the cosmos. daryl haggard an associate professor of physics at mcgill university in montreal told me that what nasa has achieved is unprecedented. it s extraordinarily exciting. i mean, this