NASA / Chris Gunn
Happy National Christmas Lights Day, everyone! Today marks 21 days till NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
JWST was originally supposed to take flight on December 18, but a processing issue inside Guiana Space Centre's satellite preparation facility prompted NASA to delay the launch by four days.
Barring any more technical issues and bad weather postponing liftoff, JWST remains on track to begin its historic mission of immense astronomical discoveries at 4:20 AM, Pacific Standard Time (7:20 AM, Eastern Standard Time), on December 22!
On another note, this month also marks 30 years since Jackie B. told me that she was gonna give me a Christmas card before winter break started when I was in elementary school (I was in 6th grade at the time, and she was in 8th grade). Jackie never followed through on the card (which, of course, broke my heart. Heh), but at least she gave me a wallet photo the following semester!
I still have that picture to this day... Carry on.
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