What was it like in the Mission Operations Center at @SpaceTelescope when we launched the world’s most powerful space telescope? Relive this historic moment through Dr. Jane Rigby, our Webb operations project scientist at @NASAGoddard: go.nasa.gov/32zl0Yg 🚀 ✨

Merry Christmas! We got you a new telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope launched today, beginning a one-million-mile journey to see 13.5 billion years into the past. Follow @NASAWebb and join the quest to #UnfoldTheUniverse: go.nasa.gov/3qHIEKT

Congratulations to our #JWST team for supporting a successful launch this Christmas morning! We appreciate your dedication all year round, but especially today. See the JWST mission visualized in #FreeFlyer in the link below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l…

My @NASAWebb 🧵

'Where is Webb?' Nice live updating website by @NASA, tracking #JWST's progress towards its final orbit: www.jwst.nasa.gov/content…

Wonderful launch… and after that a successful stage separation and solar panel deployment (see the image…) @NASAWebb is correctly on its way to be operative in few months!

Do we have any word yet on how precisely the launch went? I understand that the total lifetime of the propellant depends on how much JWST has to use during the mid-course corrections. Do we know how much that will be yet? @planet4589

Intended as a successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope, the long-delayed James Webb is named after NASA’s administrator during the 1960s. www.newswest9.com/article…

🔭 🌌 This is the Christmas gift that all astronomers have been waiting 30 years for! Barring bad weather, the James-Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch today from Kourou, French Guiana. www.cbc.ca/news/science/w…

Image 1 : téléscope James Webb, 2021 Image 2 : génie de Kubrick, 1968

Congratulations @NASA on the launch of the Webb Space Telescope! We’re proud to have played a part in this new chapter in space exploration and can't wait to see what happens next. See the steps to get the telescope fully deployed: go.nasa.gov/3rS8LRl #UnfoldTheUniverse

After a successful launch, @NASAWebb has started its million mile journey. We’re humbled to participate in this global partnership and for the role we’re playing in this historic scientific space mission. Stay tuned, this is just the beginning. #DefiningPossible 📸: @Arianespace

The @NASAWebb Space Telescope is finally on its way into orbit — the biggest #astronomy space telescope ever has blasted off on Christmas Day, and will begin its science mission in mid-2022: www.newscientist.com/arti… @NASA

Follow along with #JWST's deployment & journey to L2 here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/web…

What's the dimmest magnitude object that the James Webb Space Telescope can detect? You can explore what JWST will see using this exposure time calculator: jwstetc.stsci.edu/etc/ but it can see the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the Moon buff.ly/3eoK334

I’m dreaming of a James Webb Christmas 🎶 🚀