The American Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the James Webb space telescope, which it has been working on for many years with many countries for the discovery of the universe, with the Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana on December 25, 2021. had thrown. On January 24, it reached the Langrange-2 (L2) point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where it would work for 10 years.
Images show a star called HD 84406
The James Webb Space Telescope, which reached the L2 point in the past days, started its preparations for 5 months on February 2nd. The telescope, which is produced in the form of a giant eye with a diameter of 6.5 meters with 18 hexagonal mirrors, will be adjusted in millimeters during this process and then it will start its work. It will begin sending its first stunning cosmic photos in mid-summer.
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James Webb sent a test image while he was in the middle of aligning his split mirrors. In the photograph sent by the telescope, there is a star called HD 84406. The photo taken was planned and not exploratory, but sending such an image seems to relieve scientists. Astronomer Marshall Perrin from the Space Telescope Science Institute had the following words on the subject.
The fact that we have received so much data since the first day is a product of Webb’s seamless operation with all science operations and data processing systems on Earth. This has been a great starting point for aligning the mirrors.
James Webb Space Telescope image
taken with a special camera inside the NIRCam device, the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first photo using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam). It has completed the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the telescope’s mirror. Webb is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope, which discovered more than 200,000 galaxies, the source of most information we know about space. In another sense, Webb will be able to see 13.5 billion years ago by traveling in time. It is already a matter of curiosity what they will send after the installation of the telescope.
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