NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will study the universe's origins

For the past 31 years the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluably versatile observation platform for astronomers but it's begun showing its age of late. Last serviced in 2009, the telescope has had to enter the partial-shutdown "safe mode" multiple times over the last few years -- most recently, this October. And while optimistic estimates suggest that the Hubble could remain in operation through the end of the decade, NASA, with its ESA and CSA partners, have already spent more than a doz...