This week, the world’s largest space telescope is scheduled to leave the launch pad in French Guiana to travel to its destination 1 million miles from Earth. From this location, the behemoth will provide astronomers with exquisite images of the cosmos just after the Big Bang. It will also probe exoplanet atmospheres and peer into the maelstrom surrounding super massive black holes in distant galaxies.

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