James Webb telescope's MIRI instrument goes super-cold - BBC

The UK-assembled instrument on Hubble's successor reaches a decidedly chilly -267C in space.

Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image caption, Conceptual studies on what would become MIRI began in the late 1990s It is perhaps the very definition of cool. The Mid-Infrared … [+4674 chars]

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