Lets learn together The James Webb Space Telescope
1 The James Webb Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Telescope
2 Work on the telescope began in 1996 at a cost of $10 billion by several space agencies
3 The primary mirror is actually 18 hexagonal mirrored segments it can observe at a lower frequency range than the Hubble currently
4 Construction was completed in 2016 but its launch to orbit has been delayed by Covid 19 it is planned to launch in Oct- Dec 2021
