If you are among those intrigued with outer space, you might want to skip NCAA football for a couple of hours and tune in to CNN tonight at 9PM ( EST ) or 4PM in Hawaii.    The Hunt for Planet B   will be setting the stage for, finally, and hopefully, the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on December 18 at 7:20 ( EST ) on an Ariane 5 rocket at the European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana.  This is Europe's contribution to the project.  Why here is that the location is at the equator. The staff of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) and NASA, plus much of the world, will be holding their collective breaths until the first sign of success occurs in about  six months  after launch.  Why?  Just  read these details  to appreciate the complexity of the operation to take the telescope a million miles away to the second Lagrange ( L2 ) at the Earth-Sun balance point. A first comparison can be made with the infra red  Herschel Space Observatory , which in 2009 was