JWST's mirror spans 21.3 feet—almost 3x wider than Hubble’s

It unfolds in space like origami: over 300 single points of failure

The five-layer sunshield keeps instruments colder than -370°F

🔧 Over 100 engineers and scientists designed the mirror

👉 Scroll for the golden marvel that brings this blueprint to life

18 hexagonal beryllium mirror segments coated in vaporized gold

Built to detect the faintest infrared light from ancient galaxies

JWST has 344 single points of failure — every one had to work perfectly

Decades in the making, but built to last far beyond

👉 Scroll to launch deep into the cosmos

Launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket on December 25, 2021

Engineered through a collaboration between NASA, ESA, and CSA

Traveled nearly 1 million miles to L2—a gravity-stable orbit beyond the Moon

👉 Scroll to see how we unfolded the impossible

JWST unfolded in space over 30 days: sunshield, mirror, and instruments

Fully deployed in January 2022 and now orbiting in deep space, JWST peers back over 13 billion years

It can see exoplanets, stellar nurseries, and even the birth of galaxies

It’s the most advanced space observatory ever created

👉 Scroll to see what Webb reveals about the universe

Webb reveals the unseen: baby stars, forming planets, and ancient galaxies.

Captures details invisible to the human eye using infrared light.

Every image is a time machine—peering into the earliest chapters of the universe.