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Know about world's largest space telescope: JWST

James webb Space Telescope: JWST is going to give us our first detailed glimpse of our early universe from which we and everything we know was born. It is a 10-billion-dollar endeavour. It is the successor of Hubble Space Telescope and optimised for Infrared wavelengths.   Hubble was the first telescope that was established in space and does Optical and near Infrared imaging. It has done some game changing discoveries in 25 years of life span like find finding exoplanet, super massive black hole, saw collision & merging and growth of galaxies. In spite of all these achievements Hubble has one flaw that it can’t observe some place of universe, we need more powerful telescope than Hubble. So JWST comes in picture.   JWST is a joint venture of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), CSA (Canadian Space Agency). JWST was expected to be launched on 2007 but after 16 launch delays it finally launched by Ariane 5 (European heavy lift launch vehicle) from the European spaceport in Kour...