Optical segment of James Webb Space Telescope completed

The optical and science segment of the largest space telescope ever now stands complete in the largest clean room on the planet, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Now poised to undergo rigorous pre-flight testing ahead of its 2018 launch, the James Webb Space Telescope will span the size of a tennis court when fully assembled and will look back over 13.5 billion years to help unravel the mysteries of the early universe, such as the formation of the first stars and galaxies, while also studying planets around distant stars.

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