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Spacecraft controllers started powering up James Webb Space Telescopes four cutting-edge instruments as they prepare to take test images of the first star.

With the Webb telescope, it will be possible to apply the mapping methods available to us to measure the three-dimensional variation of exoplanet atmospheres.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the next-generation telescope which will be the successor to Hubble, recently arrived at its new home. It will orbit the sun at

The Rome-based Virtual Telescope Project tracked Webb through space and found it in the bowl of the Big Dipper, before using a robotic telescope to capture a five-minute exposure of the telescope.

Here are a few incredible facts about the James Webb Space Telescope you absolutely need to know.

NASA has moved its James Webb Space Telescope into orbital position. Thrusters were fired at 14:00 ET to begin the process of parking 7-ton telescope where it will remain for a decade.

NASAs James Webb Space Telescope will enter its parking spot at around 19:00 GMT today, where the $10 billion observatory will spend more than a decade observing the universe.

From ‘cosmic dawn’ to finding ‘Earth 2.0’ the world’s most advanced space observatory is going to have a busy first year.

The $10 billion Webb telescope has been in space for nearly a month, and is close to being at the end of its deployment - something that happened faster than expected.

Mission control engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland are fine-tuning Webbs individual optics into one huge, precise telescope.