The next great observatory is improving its vision and is going well on its way to unraveling the mysteries of the Universe. NASA has announced that the James Webb telescope has completed the fourth and fifth stages of its alignment … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which was launched last December, has been progressively powering up its instruments and unfurling its sun shield, and is now aligning its mirrors in preparation for operation. Within a few months, the most powerful … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though not quite tonight) – and even taken a selfie, NASA announced on Friday. The steps are part of a months-long process of aligning the observatory’s massive golden mirror, which … Read More
Work on the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started. The new observatory, the largest space telescope ever built, successfully unfolded its final primary mirror segment on Saturday (Jan. 8), capping off what NASA has billed as one of … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield, a requirement for the telescope’s science operations and the most tense part of its risky deployment. Yesterday (Jan. 4), the difficult procedure, which required careful … Read More
A Real-Time Graphic from NASA is Tracking The Webb Telescope’s Long Journey to L2 Webb will now unfurl The James Webb Space Telescope – successor to the Hubble Space Telescope – is on its way to L2, following a successful … Read More