360What happened in 2021?
4 moments from 2021 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
- History · 25 December 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope is launched
On 25 December 2021, an Ariane 5 rocket launched the James Webb Space Telescope from Kourou, French Guiana. Built by NASA with the European and Canadian space agencies, it unfolded a 6.5 m gold-coated mirror on its way to a point 1.5 million km from Earth. Its first images, in July 2022, showed the early universe in astonishing detail.
- On this day · 25 December 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope launches
On 25 December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope lifted off from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket. The largest space telescope ever built, it sees in infrared light and can observe some of the first galaxies formed after the Big Bang. Its first images were released in July 2022.
- 25 December 2021 · from The James Webb Space Telescope is launched
Webb is launched
- 2021 · from The 2020s so far: the pandemic, AI and Riyadh's global stage
James Webb Space Telescope launched