James webb space telescope launch

  Hubble is best seen from areas of the Earth that are  between the latitudes of 28.5 degrees north and 28.5 degrees south . This is because Hubble's orbit is inclined to the equator at 28.5 degrees. ... So northern parts of Australia have great access to seeing the HST and can catch the telescope flying right overhead.

  After nearly 30 years and $10 billion, the James Webb Space Telescope will take flight. Launching Christmas Day, the telescope is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built. The James Webb Space Telescope  is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope , which launched into orbit in 1990.

  With NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble pushing 32 years in orbit,  the bigger, 100 times more powerful Webb  is widely viewed as its successor even though the two are vastly different.

The Webb space telescope is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than 7:20 a.m. on Saturday (Dec. 25) from   the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana

  Liftoff of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer farther than ever into the universe, has been delayed until Christmas Day at the earliest,  due to poor weather at the launch site on South America's northeastern coast

After launch, it'll take Webb   about 30 days   to get to its destination. Once ensconced in orbit around L2 — Webb will circle the point, not simply sit in it — and fully checked out, the telescope will begin an ambitious and varied observing campaign