Heading to space was just the beginning for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Heralded as NASA's premier space observatory of the next decade, the telescope launched on Christmas Day -- and it still has a ways to go before it's in orbit and observing the universe. The agency refers to this process as"29 days on the edge" while the observatory unfolds its massive sunshield and reaches a special point in orbit that is a million miles away from Earth.
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