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TheJames Webb Space Telescope ( JWST)is the largest and most powerful space scope that human race has ever create , enabling scientists to stare further into the universe than ever before .

But more imposingly , thanks to the ( comparatively ) limitedspeed of light , theJWSTcan in effect peer back in time to the early universe of discourse — over 13.5 billion years ago — to study how the first galaxies were born after theBig Bang . Since it launch back in 2021 , we ’ve already made some astounding find about the macrocosm .

An artist�s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope.

An artist’s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Originally known as the " Next Generation Space Telescope , " the telescope wassomewhat controversiallynamed after James E. Webb , one ofNASA ’s other decision maker . Webb ran NASA from 1961 to 1968 , overseeing the Apollo program and retiring mere month before NASA landed a military personnel on the synodic month .

But how much do you know about this scientific wonder ? Take our JWST quiz and find out . Be certain to enter if you want to vie on our leaderboard , and rack up the wind clit if you ca n’t see a way to the answer .

An artist�s illustration of SPHEREx orbiting above Earth.

a deep field image of thousands of galaxies

a photo of a very large orange galaxy next to other smaller galaxies

An image of a tornado-shaped glowing orange cloud in outer space with many bright twinkling stars

A lot of galaxies are seen as bright spots on a dark background. Toward the left, the JWST is shown in an illustration.

SPHEREx�s complete field of view spans the top three images, the same region of sky is captured in different wavelengths in the bottom three.

A white streak of light in the night sky with purple auroras visible in the background

The Phoenix Mars lander inside the clean room the bacteria were found in

China�s Tiangong space station with Earth in the background

An artist�s illustration of a satellite crashing back to Earth.

An illustration of a satellite crashing into the ocean after an uncontrolled reentry through Earth�s atmosphere

The space balloon

person using binoculars to look at the stars

a child in a yellow rain jacket holds up a jar with a plant

a close-up of an electric vehicle�s charging port

Mosaic of Saturn taken by NASA�s Cassini spacecraft on November 20, 2017. Source -NASA & JPL-Caltech & Space Science Institute

Robot feeding baby in a kitchen, mother in background

a close-up of a chimpanzee�s face

A photo of a volcano erupting at night with the Milky Way visible in the sky