JWST prepares for science work | Astronomy.com - Astronomy Magazine


6/21/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Marcia Rieke The Conversation

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

Once the sun shield was open, our team began monitoring the temperatures of the four cameras and spectrometers onboard, waiting for them to reach temperatures low enough so that we could start testin… [+2707 chars]

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