Top ten facts about the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest telescope ever sent into space. It is the impressive result of efforts from NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency and will peer to the edges of the visible universe. This video highlights some of the Webb’s most impressive facts. View also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T5HCy7oqgJg Download: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12395 Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia

Watch as the most detailed infrared view of the Helix Nebula taken to date—from the James Webb Space Telescope—is put into context using the famous visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Webb zooms into a small section of the shells of gas cast off by a dying star, revealing pillars that look like comets with extended tails. The retired Spitzer Space Telescope’s studies of the Helix Nebula, also seen here in infrared light, hinted at the formation of more complex molecules, but Web