17 images to count down to the James Webb Space Telescope launch

17 images to count down to the James Webb Space Telescope launch

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Post Views: 152 When the US, Europe, and Canada first unveiled the plans for the James Webb Space Telescope in 1997, it sounded like a pitch from an overambitious science student. The contraption would have to schlep a 26-foot-wide mirror across the solar system, while keeping its cool around the radioactive sun. But to build…