Engineers have unboxed the James Webb Space Telescope in French Guiana and will now prepare it for launch. The $10bn successor to the Hubble observatory arrived at Europe's Kourou spaceport five days ago after being shipped from the US.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Webb’s flight into orbit will take place on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

A new space telescope to directly observe the formation of stars and planets will be showcased in an exhibition at the Hong Kong Space Museum from Wednesday. The exhibition "Golden Eye on the Cosmos - James Webb Space Telescope" will be held until May 30 next year at the foyer of the museum in Tsim Sha Tsui. It will explain the innovative technologies, science missions and scientific principle behind infrared astronomy.