Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times – James Webb Space Telescope

Credit: NASA Lee esta nota en español aquí. The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. The team’s challenge was twofold: confirm that NIRCam was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from the same star in each

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『This “selfie” was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument that was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of space. 』　ウェッブ望遠鏡の自撮り