The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for - The Conversation

It has taken eight months to test and calibrate all of the instruments and modes of the James Webb Space Telescope. A scientist on the team explains what it took to get Webb up and running.

NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. Theyll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb the largest space telescope ever… [+6760 chars]

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