The JWST is launching on December 25 at 7:20am EST (in six hours). Is anyone else going to be watching the stream?https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

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Anonymous 12/25/21 (Sat) 06:11:17 No.1947

The JWST is launching on December 25 at 7:20am EST (in six hours). Is anyone else going to be watching the stream?

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

Anonymous 12/25/21 (Sat) 11:51:33 No.1948

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T-30 minutes

Anonymous 12/25/21 (Sat) 12:23:21 No.1949

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Anonymous 12/25/21 (Sat) 12:54:33 No.1950

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Successful launch

Anonymous 12/26/21 (Sun) 13:22:21 No.1951

Is this thing really important? I saw threads about it somewhere else but never dived into it

Anonymous 12/26/21 (Sun) 14:42:37 No.1952

>>1951
It's going to be the most powerful space telescope in history. It'll be at least as significant as the Hubble space telescope if everything goes well. It observes in infrared rather than visible light so it'll be able to see older and farther objects than the Hubble and answer questions it couldn't.

Anonymous 12/30/21 (Thu) 01:25:07 No.1953

I think it looks so cool. That golden honeycomb thing. wow! so cool!

Anonymous 12/30/21 (Thu) 23:41:23 No.1957

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The JWST is about to deploy its sunshield. In testing in 2018 it ended up ripping in several places, so here's hoping it goes well.