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James Webb Space Telescope : Everything you want to know

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  What did the galaxy look like 4.6 billion years ago? Well, we don’t have to guess. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope built by NASA we know exactly how it looked and it is unbelievable!  When I said Webb, don’t think of a spider! While you and I were eating pizza and watching tv, thousands of smart scientists worked on creating the most powerful telescope in the world to help us understand space better.  Now I know what you must be thinking, What is James Webb? Who is he? The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor of the Hubble space telescope. It has also been called “The next generation of space telescopes”. It has a huge camera. Does anyone have a phone camera that's 6.5 meters across? No right? Well that's the length of the main camera on the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest mirror in space. It also orbits the sun every 182.5 earth days or 6 earth months. It was made by NASA. It is named after James Webb who was a very good NASA administrator. I talked a