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Welcome to Team Webb! You are about to embark on one of the most diffi cult space missions of all time. You will oversee the design, engineering, construction and launch of the most powerful space telescope that has ever existed. And that’s just the beginning...

Your groundbreaking telescope will beable to spot the fi rst galaxies ever formed,peer inside dusty cocoons where newstars are born and even study the airaround alien planets. Once you havesafely launched it, you will use yourtelescope to collect data and reportback on what you discover.

Go forth, brave explorer. We arewaiting to see the Universethrough your eyes!

GOOD LUCK!Olivia Johnson and the Space Crew

Welcome, Space

explorer!

to spaceand beyond...

When I was on the International

Space Station, I’d look out of

the window and imagine what we

might find if we could travel into

deep space. If you had the power

to see more of the Universe than

anyone has before, what would

you want to discover?

Hi space explorers,

ESA Astronaut

Tim Peake here!

Draw or write

what you want

to discover

Do you ever wonder what’s out

there in the Universe?

Zap to watch a video messagefrom Tim Peake

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the Skyat night

Long before there were telescopes, humans observed

stars and planets with the naked eye. What can you

see when you look up at the night sky? Plot the

coordinates below to reveal a star formation you may

recognise!

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Use these symbols to mark each staron the grid

Do you recognise this star pattern?

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Ancient Diagram of our Solar System Modern Diagram of our Solar System

What do you notice about the diagram on the left? Can you draw your own diagram of the Solar System based on our knowledge of it today? What have we learnt?

Zap to explore

our Solar System

Throughout history, humans have used the night sky as

a map, a clock and a calendar. But before telescopes

were invented we didn’t always understand our Solar

System, especially where Earth was in relation to other

planets...

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Throughout the history of astronomy, each new

technology has enabled us to discover more and

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draw what each telescope has shown us.

the starrymessengers

Zap to discover more about

these awesome telescopes

Hi space explorers, I’m Gillian Wright and I lead a

team working on the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb

has the potential to see the most distant galaxies in the

Universe. Can you imagine what astronomers saw, or might

see, through each of these breakthrough telescopes?

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