The first photos from the James Webb telescope appeared

Photo: twitter.com/NASA

James Webb telescope

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Earlier, the agency said that the footage will be radically different from space images taken by similar space telescopes.

NASA has released the first images taken in space with the world’s most expensive James Webb telescope. The photos appeared on the agency’s Twitter on Friday, February 11.

The images were predicted to be blurry and repetitive from the 18 segments of Webb’s primary mirror.

“Early engineering images from this step of the process, called ‘segment image identification’, combine more than 1,000 images to form 18 out-of-focus versions of a single star. This serves as a starting point for progressively combining Webb’s mirror segments into one precise system,” the agency said. .

Pictured above is the star HD 84406. It is a sun-like star in the constellation Ursa Major, which includes the Big Dipper star pattern, located about 260 light-years away. It is too dim to be visible to the naked eye.

NASA noted that it would take up to three months to align the Webb mirror segments for the 18 segments to function as a single cohesive mirror. Once completed, the telescope will be ready for its mission to look deeper into the universe than ever before.

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched. He is now at an observation point called the Earth-Sun Lagrange point 2, a stable region of space about one million miles from the Earth in the direction of the Sun.

Recall that the James Webb telescope is a joint work of the American (NASA), European (ESA) and Canadian (CSA) space agencies. It was collected in 2019.–

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