Article by Interesting Engineering, Inc. 2022.
The telescope will align its mirrors before moving to its final destination.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just completed its most critical task, unfolding its 21 feet (6.5 m) wide concave-shaped, gold-plated primary mirror on Saturday, 14 days after its long-delayed launch on December 25th, NASA announced in a press release.
The Webb mission, a joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, will observe lightyears into the past, from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe.
First image will be seen by this summer!
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