NASA has finally launched the James Webb Space Telescope

At long last, NASA has launched the James Webb Space Telescope. On Christmas morning, the telescope launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket after 14 years of development and a number of delays. The JSWT will orbit the Sun, close to the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system. It will take around a month to reach its destination, after which researchers will be able to peek into black holes, observe some of the oldest galaxies in the universe and ...