BREAKING: Nasa launches the most powerful space telescope yet on Christmas Day.
Controllers had been given a half-hour window to get the rocket carrying the telescope airborne, and successfully targeted the beginning of the time period.
The plan is to map the dark matter around galaxies with the aim of unlocking the secrets of the mysterious substance that makes up the majority of matter in the universe. As part of the buildup to the highly anticipated launch today, the space organisation released a trailer nudging us to ‘prepare for a new way to see the universe’.
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