World's most expensive space telescope successfully launched

The world's most advanced and most expensive space telescope, the James Webb, was successfully launched just after 1pm Hungarian time on 25 December. 

After repeated postponements launched the James Webb space telescope from its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. Intended as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, it will gather information about the earliest ages of the universe, probing the cosmos, planets and moons within the Solar System, and the oldest and most distant galaxies, in the infrared region, largely absorbed by our planet's atmosphere.

The device, developed by the US, European and Canadian space agencies, is named after James Webb, the second director of NASA. The highly complex structure has become the world's most expensive space telescope, costing some $10.7 billion, or approximately HUF 3 400 billion. The most advanced space telescope ever will travel to a region called the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, in the coming weeks.

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. pic.twitter.com/Al8Wi5c0K6

- NASA (@NASA) December 25, 2021

On the occasion of the launch of James Webb, Google also prepared by an augmented reality object that appears as an option in the browser when you click on the telescope. To access the feature, all you need to do is Google space telescope on your mobile device (type in James Webb space telescope or James Webb space telescope), then click on Mview in 3D, and later the View in space and rotate around the ground with your phone's camera until you see the space device you want.