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NASA’s new space telescope sees first starlight, takes selfie
Updated On: 13 February, 2022 09:21 AM IST | Cape Canaveral | Agencies
Over the next few months, the hexagonal mirror segments—each the size of a coffee table—will be aligned and focused as one, allowing science observations to begin by the end of June
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NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror. All 18 segments of the primary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope seem to be working properly one-and-half-months into the mission.
The telescope’s first target was a bright star 258 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. “That was just a real wow moment,” said Marshall Perrin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Over the next few months, the hexagonal mirror segments—each the size of a coffee table—will be aligned and focused as one, allowing science observations to begin by the end of June.
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