Days from now on 12/24/2021, the James Webb Space Telescope hopes to launch and unfold a whole new view of the cosmos. It will take six months for the telescope to unfurl its sun shields and main mirror, calibrate its instruments, cool down and reach its destination nearly 1 million miles from Earth.
Early full-scale model on display at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (2005)
By NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham / Emmett Given
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is incredible I will certainly be impatiently waiting for the images it captures. 
Unity
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Dec 28, 2021
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Webb can discover info about solar system planets and very distant planets. It will be able to see through clouds and interstellar dust and see many objects a lot clearer than Hubble. The pictures will undoubtedly be amazing.
Yep, I'm eager to see some of the images that may come back...
mischl
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Dec 21, 2021
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Absolutely... I'll be thrilled to see what it sees.
@AnonySchmoose I don't like saying this out loud, but there's a couple dozen things that could go wrong. And astronauts won't be able to get to it.
Awesome can't wait
bobwjr
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Dec 21, 2021
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Fantastic fun to learn what it learns
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