been getting ready for its mission. the james webb space telescope is an engineering marvel. at its core is a six and a half metre wide mirror made up of 18 hexagonal segments, each perfectly aligned to act as a single surface. it also has a sun shield the size of a tennis court to protect it from the heat and light of the sun. the telescope will look back further in time than ever before, showing us the light from the very first stars to shine. we ll also be able to see how they came together to form the earliest galaxies. and it will study other planetary systems, revealing whether life could exist beyond our world. it s almost like a time machine. you re looking back into the far distant past and so we can begin to answer those questions about how did the first galaxies and stars form. the hope with this telescope is that we see almost in real time, as it were, a history of the universe playing out. the telescope also captured this.
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what did it take to get to this point? well, it is an engineering marvel. nothing like this has ever been built before. it had to deal with terrestrial setbacks. there was a point in time people didn t know if congress would continue to fund it, it was $9 billion over budget. delayed by ten years due to various technical issues, but simply getting the telescope to the launch pad, this is a $10 billion telescope. part of one of the contingency plans they had to talk about, what if there were perhaps pirates that tried to steal it on the ship to french giana. it is just one of the things it had to deal with getting to space. pirates. unexpected. you have to deal with