JamesWebbTelescope

The unofficial Twitter account for the James Webb Telescope

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start #NASAWebb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2. https://t.co/bsIU3vccAj #UnfoldTheUniverse

[European Space Agency @esa]

🤔 Want to know more about #Webb?

🔭 See farther with @ESA_Webb 👉 https://t.co/skEfl4FMnX and https://t.co/AjBxiF6Amv #WebbSeesFarther #JWST

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉

With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that's:
50 major deployments, complete.
178 pins, released.
20+ years of work, realized.

Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!

[Space 360 @Space360HQ]

Here's a fireworks display worthy of #NYE!
Captured by @NASAHubble, this giant star cluster is about 2 million years old and contains some of our galaxy’s hottest, brightest and most massive stars! https://t.co/qeenCjeneo

[Space 360 @Space360HQ]

Launching soon, @NASAWebb (the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever ICYMI) will reveal the universe as never, ever seen before. So... what do you think we’ll discover when we #UnfoldTheUniverse? Show us what you believe the Webb telescope will see by creating art. 1/2⬇️

[NASA @NASA]

Here it is: humanity’s final look at @NASAWebb as it heads into deep space to answer our biggest questions. Alone in the vastness of space, Webb will soon begin an approximately two-week process to deploy its antennas, mirrors, and sunshield. #UnfoldTheUniverse

[NASA @NASA]

We have LIFTOFF of the @NASAWebb Space Telescope!

At 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC), the beginning of a new, exciting decade of science climbed to the sky. Webb’s mission to #UnfoldTheUniverse will change our understanding of space as we know it.