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Today, Saturday, 25.12.21 at 14:20 (Israel time), the James Webb Space Telescope will be launched, the successor to the Hubble Telescope and a new generation of space telescopes, designed to provide answers to the most intriguing questions in astronomy and astrophysics - the formation of the first galaxies, their birth of stars, the study of the properties of planets in distant solar systems and whether they have life.

Astronomer on the telescope team James Webb explains how a huge telescope is launched into space - and why, but first of all, that it will be successfully launched and deployed in the weeks after the launch