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Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine We're one year into an unprecedented view of the cosmos. As the astonishing achievements of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are paraded out this summer to celebrate the $10 billion observatory's one-year anniversary of its first dazzling deep sky imagery, a new Netflix documentary titled "Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine" reveals more details of how this historic astronomical project was hatched and executed. Directed by Shai Gal and executive produced by Jason Spingarn-Koff, "Cosmic Time Machine" premieres on July 14, 2019 and provides a captivating behind-the-scenes glimpse into NASA's endeavor to launch the James Webb Space Telescope as we tag along with its dedicated team of visionary engineers and scientists while they endure the tensions and triumphs of a mission that took nearly three decades to complete. Related: The James Webb Space Telescope wraps 1st year peering across the universe. What has it discovered so far? Read more: James Webb Space Telescope celebrates 1st year of science with jaw-dropping view of cosmic nursery (photo) a large mirror made up of gold hexagonal segments As a technologically advanced successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Telescope is the largest, most complex off-Earth observatory in the world. It lifted off inside an ESA Ariane 5 rocket on Christmas Day of 2019 from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana and arrived at its calculated Lagrange 2 workplace 1 million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth in January of 2023. a spacecraft in orbit above the earth
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