The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope that focuses on infrared astronomy. The telescope was developed by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The JWST was launched on an ESA Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on December 25, 2021, and is set to follow the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s premier astrophysics mission. The telescope is named after NASA Administrator James E. Webb, who served from 1961 to 1968 and oversaw the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
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Brief : SOLAR SYSTEM
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the planets or cosmic objects that orbit it. In simple words, it is the collection of eight planets and their moons, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
Our planetary system is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our planetary system is called as “solar system” because Sun hosts the solar system and Sun is the center of our planetary system and everything around the system revolves within the gravitational force of the sun. According to NASA, Our Sun is named Sol, after the Latin word for Sun, “Solis,” and anything related to the Sun we call “solar.”
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