韦伯太空望远镜升空：史上最大最昂贵，将探索宇宙起源James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Journey to See the Dawn of Starlight The dreams and work of a generation of astronomers headed for an orbit around the sun on Saturday in the form of the biggest and most expensive space-based observatory ever built. The James Webb Space Telescope, a joint effort of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, lifted off from a spaceport near the Equator in Kourou, French Guiana, a teetering pillar of fire and smoke embarking on a million-mile trip to the morning of time. 周六，有史以来最大、最昂贵的太空天文台发射升空，飞向环绕太阳的轨道，一代天文学家的梦想和工作随即启程。詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜是美国宇航局、欧洲航天局和加拿大航天局的合作项目，当天上午它从法属圭亚那库鲁赤道附近的一个太空港升空，在摇曳的火柱和烟雾中开启了上百万英里的旅程。 “The world gave us this telescope and we’re handing it back to the world today,” said Gregory Robinson, the Webb telescope’s program director, during a post-launch news conference in French Guiana. 在法属圭亚那，韦伯望远镜项目主管格雷戈里·罗宾逊在发射后举行的新闻发布会上说：“世界给了我们这台望远镜，我们今天将它交回世界手中。” The telescope, named for the NASA administrator who led the space agency through the early years of the Apollo program, is designed to see farther in space and further back in time than the vaunted Hubble Space Telescope. Its primary light gathering mirror is 21 feet across, about three times bigger than Hubble, and seven times more sensitive. 该望远镜以阿波罗计划早期美国宇航局局长的名字命名。与人们曾经引以为豪的哈勃空间望远镜相比，它能看到更远的太空和更早的时间。它的主聚光镜约6.4米宽，大约是哈勃望远镜的三倍，灵敏度是它的七倍。 headed for 前往 |
