The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched into orbit on December 15 this year.

According to Tehsil.biz, this was reported by NASA.

The $ 10 billion giant space observatory, a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, will be launched from the cosmodrome in French Guiana by an Ariane 5 rocket.

The telescope is currently housed in Redondo Beach, California.

The telescope is named after James Webb, the head of the Apollo program, which sent man to the moon. The telescope will replace the Hubble Space Observatory. It will be sent to Lagrange, about 1.6 million km from Earth.

The new telescope was created to study the ancient stars and universes that formed after the Big Bang, as well as to discover new vital planets. Axar.az