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Published inPhotons Incoming: Webb Team Begins Aligning the Telescope
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About the Webb Telescope

Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

Learn more about Webb at:

  • webb.nasa.gov
  • nasa.gov/webb
  • webbtelescope.org
  • stsci.edu/jwst (for astronomers)

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