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Powerful Webb telescope blasts off into space

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The world's most powerful space telescope blasts off into orbit, headed to an outpost 1.5 million kilometres (930,000 miles) from Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope left Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana at 1220 GMT.

Added on the 25/12/2021 17:02:33 - Copyright : AFP EN

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