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JWST Reaches Alignment Milestone And Is In Full, Glorious Focus

April 29, 2022 by Ignat

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully aligned, and NASA has the pictures to prove it. Every mirror on the JWST, the world’s largest and most powerful telescope, is now officially aligned and in focus. To announce the achievement, the … Read More

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The New NASA’s IXPE Space Telescope Shares Its First, Historic Glimpse of The Cosmos

February 16, 2022 by Ignat

A new telescope designed to peer into the twisted X-ray Universe has just returned its first imaging data. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a NASA-Italy Space Agency collaboration, focused its attention on one of the Milky Way’s most famous … Read More