The Webb telescope found 20 new exoplanetary systems. Here’s how you can help name them

The James Webb — the world’s largest and most powerful telescope — launched in December 2021 and traveled a million miles to its final destination.

that formed 13.7 billion years ago, just 100 million years from the universe-creating Big Bang. The telescope also will scan the atmospheres of alien worlds for possible signs of life.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has described Webb as a time machine that will provide "a better understanding of our universe and our place in it: who we are, what we are, the search that’s eternal.

"things, or places of long-standing cultural, historical, or geographical significance, worthy of being assigned to a celestial object."Names of real people, living or dead, or things or places named wholly or partly for peopleContrived names and portmanteaus . Exception: Multi-word names may be combined in some cases.

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