The James Webb Space Telescope — once the bête noire of space science — continues to dazzle now it is happily ensconced in space. On Friday, April 1, NASA revealed that the telescope has completed stage six of its seven-step set-up process ahead of schedule. The Webb Telescope is on track to come online in the summer of 2022 when it will begin observations of the near and distant universe. The Webb Telescope has the potential to unlock the secrets of dark matter, peer into exoplanets’ atmospheres for signs of life, and find the first stars in the universe.
