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The James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most powerful and sophisticated telescopes ever built, is now revealing the ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s premier observatory of the next decade, successfully launched to space Saturday morning. The telescope will study exoplanets in new ways and look deeper ...
The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as Webb or JWST, launched on Dec. 25, 2021.It has spent the intervening months trekking out to its deep-space post and preparing for science observations ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is ready to observe the universe. The space observatory’s massive mirror, capable of peering into the most distant reaches of space, is now completely aligned ...
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NASA calculated that there are more than 300 opportunities for potential single-point failures in the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope.
After the successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope on Dec. 25, 2021, the team began the long process of moving the telescope into its final orbital position, unfolding the telescope and ...
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope consists of 18 hexagonal mirror segments. The telescope is now in space with its mirror segments aligned. Chris Gunn/NASA hide caption ...
Before the James Webb Space Telescope can start observing the universe, all 18 segments of its primary mirror need to act as one 6.5-meter mirror.
A total of 1,172 observing proposals were submitted to the Space Telescope Science Institute, or STScI, which manages the new telescope. Of those, 286 projects were selected for its first year of ...