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Consider Your Insignificance While Gazing at JWST’s First Picture of the Cosmos
It has taken more than 30 years to design, build and launch into space, but the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally trickling in. And I’m excited to say that they are absolutely glorious.
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Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed
The Webb Space Telescope completed its complex mirror deployment this week, and the observatory is getting tantalizingly close to completing its journey to L2, where it will orbit the Sun a million miles away from Earth.
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Webb Space Telescope Deploys Its All-Important Sunshield
NASA, after a slight technical delay, has now tightened all five layers of the Webb Telescope’s protective sunshield.
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Here’s What Could Still Go Wrong With the Webb Space Telescope
The Webb Space Telescope, after years of delays, has finally reached the launch pad. It’s a momentous occasion, but the observatory still needs to go through a complex and unprecedented commissioning process that will require a nerve-wracking six months to complete. The hard part, it would seem, is still to come.