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So I've got my bunny suit on, which protects

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the space telescope from me, and any particles that may come off

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of me. So we are at Northrop Grumman's Space Park in Redondo Beach

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and we are going to see the James Webb Space Telescope. So let's go!

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Right

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now we are in a huge cleanroom, and like everyone else

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we've got on bunny suits. And this is NASA's James

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Webb Space Telescope.

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This telescope was envisioned

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shortly after Hubble's launch to continue on the next phase of questions

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about our Universe.

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It's going to look in the infrared spectrum of light and then seek the light of those really

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early forming galaxies, and then try to answer the questions about

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our Universe. And so what we're witnessing

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right now is the two major halves of the telescope being

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put together.

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What's really exciting about what's happening right now is that we're in the

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final stages of construction. So above us you've got the optical portion of the

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telescope, which has just been integrated with the other bottom half

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the sunshield and the spacecraft bus, which is just below it.

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But let's continue on! And coming around this side is the most spectacular

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view of this whole thing, because you can see there are these

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18 gold mirrors. They are real gold.

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And the reason is because gold reflects infrared light the best.

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Webb is going to try to solve the mysteries

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of our solar system. It's going to look to worlds around

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distant stars and then look at the mysterious structures and then try to

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explain the origins of our Universe. And no project

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like this can be done alone! So Webb is an international program.

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It's led by NASA with its partners the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.

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