The first images from James Webb will be released in July
NASA has announced the date when the first full-color images of the new James Webb Space Telescope will be released. …
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How engineers will calibrate James Webb’s four instruments
The James Webb Space Telescope is getting closer and closer to the start of its scientific mission. Now that the …
James Webb Space Telescope is capturing crisp images
Since the James Webb Space Telescope’s launch last December, engineers have worked to deploy the telescope’s hardware and then align …
James Webb Space Telescope has gone cold, but that’s good
Nearly four months after launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has just taken a big step toward its first observations …
Three of James Webb’s four instruments are now aligned
The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready to collect scientific data continues, and the Webb team …
James Webb’s MIRI instrument has both a heater and a cooler
The long process of getting the James Webb Space Telescope ready for scientific operations continues, with the ongoing tuning of …
James Webb begins aligning 3 of its instruments
The James Webb Space Telescope recently reached a major milestone as engineers completed the alignment of its mirrors. But much …
Image of James Webb snapped by the Gaia observatory
The James Webb Space Telescope does not orbit Earth like the Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, it orbits the sun in …
James Webb Space Telescope team delivers best possible news
Work to align the massive mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has gone so well that the mission team …
James Webb’s hexagonal image array shows its mirror’s shape
We won’t see stunning images of space from the James Webb Space Telescope just yet, as the telescope is still …