It has cost more than SEK 100 million and taken 20 years to build.
Now the James Webb Telescope is 1.5 million kilometers away in a fixed orbit around the Sun, delivering images from the most distant galaxies to give us new images of our own planetary system.
Finally, an image of Neptune in infrared light as we have never seen it before.
The journal Science, which annually lists what it considers to be the ten biggest scientific breakthroughs of the year, places the James Webb telescope as the biggest breakthrough of them all with the justification that "few doubt that the telescope will revolutionize the picture of our universe".
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The technology behind it is one of Science's major breakthroughs in 2022. Photo: Open AI
