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The world’s most powerful telescope unfurled its final mirror today as it sped away to its final destination one million miles from earth. NASA completed the final step of the Webb telescope’s difficult two-week initiation process Saturday, unfolding the final 21-foot piece: its ‘golden eye.’ NPR science correspondent Joe Palca joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain more about the telescope, its design, and its purpose.

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The new james webb telescope has completed a crucial task in its quest to observe some of the most distant objects in the universe. its controllers completed the deployment of the space observatory�*s giant kite—shaped sun shield, which is the size of a tennis court. the barrier will allow the telescope to detect signals deep in space, including from objects present during the formation of the first galaxies. the mens tennis world number one, novak djokovic, will defend his australian open t...

Provide new insights into the existence of life on other planets. >> it will help us understand possibilities and maybe even the probability of potential life forms, although were not looking for a life form itself, were looking for the environment that would allow life to thrive. >> reporter: to reach this point has taken $10 billion and combined brain power of thousands, from 14 countries. but its still just at the beginning. over the next few weeks, webb will continue deploying its antennas, ...

Weve never attempted anything like that in space before. were 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 6.5 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 th...

To deploy antennas, mirrors and sun shield. it is 100 times more powerful than the hubble teescope before it. scientists will get a deeper look into the universe capturing light so far that the lens will show images of what happened 13 billion years into the past, maybe even from the beginning of the universe. >> we are going to discover incredible things that we never imagined. >> reporter: the new seven-ton telescope will also expand the search for earth-like planets with elements that make li...

Virtually. take me back to the emotion that you felt. >> i was just thrilled that it was like that and not surprised a bit. of course, we planned and we reversed and we did everything necessary to make it work. so i wasnt surprised, but i was certainly thrilled. its wonderful. >> we want to show video now of the telescope detaching from the orion 5 rocket. the telescope has done so many things successfully already, talking about the incredible detachment, the mid course correction. its going to ...

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 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 engin...

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 will give us our deepest ever view of the cosmos. from seeing the birth of the very first stars and galaxies, to revealing new planets in far—flung solar sy...

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 astrophysics. a new frontier. and that is what gets so many of us excited about james webb space telescope. this spa...