James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), also known as טלסקופ החלל ג'יימס ווב in Hebrew, is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope that was launched on December 25, 2021. It is designed to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA's flagship astrophysics mission. The JWST is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The telescope is named after James E. Webb, who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 and played an integral role in the Apollo program. The JWST is designed to observe some of the most distant events and objects in the universe, such as the formation of the first galaxies, and to study planets within our solar system and those around other stars. It is positioned at the second Lagrange point (L2), about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, where it can maintain a stable position relative to the Earth and Sun.