New image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows major landmark of the newest space observatory: 18 The mirrors are now aligned enough to function as one large mirror. new photo Released by NASA today Including A “selfie” from JWST shows the mirror’s development along with a recent image of one star.
Since reaching its final orbit, a combined 18 telescope mirrors have focused on the isolated star HD 84406, which researchers are using as a target to align the mirrors. Image posted last month Show 18 photos of beautiful stars Taken individually on each mirror clip. NASA’s latest high-resolution image 84406 shows what 18 mirrors look like working with a near-infrared or infrared camera. Nircam. They can’t catch Only Pictures of stars – but also Distant galaxies are also behind the star.
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JWST’s “selfie” shows its 18 mirrors all gathering light from the same star. The portrait was taken using a special lens that helped the engineering team return to Earth to make sure the mirror was functioning properly. Now those 18 mirrors are Parallel, they can work together as a single mirror to start taking distant photos stars, galaxies, and Even a photo from 13.6 billion light years away – a picture of a small universe.
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Photo: NASA
“Over 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope ever in space and come up with bold optical designs to meet challenging science goals,” Thomas Zurbuchan, associate director of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a blog. NASA. “Today we can say that the design will work.”
Over the next six weeks, NASA will continue to prepare JWST finally started its scientific work. team The next step will involve the included coordination tools Near-infrared spectrophotometer, mid-infrared instrument, near-infrared imager, and non-slit spectrophotometer. From there, JWST will start running its final checks and make last-minute adjustments.
prolonged The adjustment process went according to plan and him Expected to be completed in early May before the telescope These became available in preparation for science observations, NASA said. They also report that the first set of images and scientific data for the telescope will be released in the summer.
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