Behind the Webb Video Podcast

The Webb Space Telescope model rose into the sky, enticing viewers with its promise of new cosmic wonders. At the World Science Festival in New York City, the life-sized model was a draw for both the technologically inclined and scientifically curious. While telescope experts and astronomers gave a rundown of Webb’s capabilities, visitors explored the promise of the next big leap in orbiting observatories. Webb's enormous size and distant orbit will allow it to see infrared light with a previously unachieved clarity, opening the path to new visions of the universe.

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute; Mike McClare, NASA GSFC.

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The World Science Festival

Time-lapse videos of the model being built in Battery Park

More pictures of the Webb Telescope model