James Webb telescope now ‘in full focus,’ ready to observe universe
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2022 10:24 pm
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully aligned, and NASA has the pictures to prove it.
To herald the completion of the alignment of Webb’s 18 gold mirrors, used to capture light from distant and ancient galaxies, NASA released a series of images showing the telescope’s full field of view in deep space.
For these test images, Webb was pointed at the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The sharply focused images show a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars rendered by each of the JWST’s science instruments.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully aligned, and NASA has the pictures to prove it.
To herald the completion of the alignment of Webb’s 18 gold mirrors, used to capture light from distant and ancient galaxies, NASA released a series of images showing the telescope’s full field of view in deep space.
For these test images, Webb was pointed at the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The sharply focused images show a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars rendered by each of the JWST’s science instruments.