How far away is the James Webb telescope?

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How far away is the James Webb telescope?

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answered Sep 4, 2022 by Wendell (43,730 points)
The James Webb telescope is as far as 1 million miles away and is the largest and most powerful space based telescope that was ever built.

The James Webb telescope is successful.

The James Webb telescope's secondary mirror was then successfully deployed and latched on Jan. 5, 2022.

Then on Jan, 8. 2022, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope had successfully unfolded the giant primary mirror and is now fully deployed.

After launch the James Webb will be operational 6 months after launch.

As of now the James Webb telescope has been launched and is now in operation.

The James Webb telescope is now ready as it's gone through all the testing and commissioning.

The months-long process of preparing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete.

All of the seventeen ways or 'modes' to operate Webb's scientific instruments have now been checked out, which means that Webb has completed its commissioning activities and is ready to begin full scientific operations.

The James Webb telescope is currently at its observing spot, Lagrange point 2 (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km).

The James Webb Telescope is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.

The launch date of the James Webb Telescope was on December 25th 2021 at 6:20 AM CST.

The power of the James Webb Telescope is 2,000 watts and cost 10 billion dollars to build and launch.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy.

As the largest optical telescope in space, its high infrared resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too early, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Just over a week after NASA dazzled the world with the first clutch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers working with one of the pictures believe they have found the oldest galaxy ever imaged—one dating back 13.5 billion years, or just 300 million years after the Big Bang, report Space.com

James Webb's cameras can look deep into space and far into the past.

Webb telescope has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant—which will be the farthest we've ever seen into space.

The James Webb Space Telescope's first year of observations promises to reveal exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces, infant galaxies, and maybe even the first black holes.

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