From Mars Curiosity’s self portrait to a destructive Saturn cyclone, view our monthly roundup of cosmic highlights from November 2012.
Window on Infinity: Pictures from Space
NASA Goddard / Chris Gunn
The James Webb Telescope is NASA's next great space observatory—the bigger, better follow-on to the aging Hubble. Here, the very eye of the Webb—the Optical Telescope Element (OTE)—is being lowered into a vacuum chamber to test if it can withstand the cold temperatures of space.