JWST's is fully deployed! How are you celebrating? The telescope still has many adventures to come before we get the first images back, but with deployment behind us, we can all take a massive sigh of relief. JWST has another two weeks left on its journey to its final destination, and it will be another five months of calibration and alignment before we get the first pretty pictures. You can learn more here: https://www.planetary.org/articles/jwst-first-images (Animation: NASA/SkyWorks Digital/N

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." In the case of JWST, it's more like a million miles, but still. You can find updates on the telescope's location in space and current deployment step here: https://webb.nasa.gov/whereiswebb (Vid: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) | The Planetary Society

Did you watch the JWST launch last weekend? This was definitely one of the coolest moments. This real-time video shows the separation of the James Webb Space Telescope from its Ariane 5 launch vehicle. It was the last close view we will ever get of the telescope. The launch and course corrections were so precise that JWST should have enough fuel to support science operations for way longer than its original 10-year lifetime. That's fantastic news! 🎉 (Vid: ESA/Arianespace) | The Planetary Societ

"...one of the wonderful challenges about astronomy is that we have to imagine something so we can go look for it. But nature has a way of being even more creative than we are; so we have always been surprised by what we see in the sky. That’s why building a telescope has always been interesting. Every time we build a better one, we see something we never imagined was out there." - Dr. John Mather Learn more about the science goals of the James Webb Space Telescope with Dr. Amber Straughn and Dr