James Webb telescope's MIRI instrument goes super-cold - Yahoo News Australia
4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Jonathan Amos - BBC Science Correspondent
by Jonathan Amos - BBC Science Correspondent
The UK-assembled instrument on Hubble's successor reaches a decidedly chilly -267C in space.
Conceptual studies on what would become MIRI began in the late 1990s It is perhaps the very definition of cool. The Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space telescope is now at its super-low … [+4519 chars]
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