The James Webb telescope, which has taken the title of the most powerful telescope ever made and which took more than 20 years to build, continues to make universe discoveries that can be considered landmarks in the scientific world. However, malfunctions may occur from time to time.James Webb crashed
Located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and costing $10 billion, the telescope is designed to withstand harsh space conditions such as micro meteor fragments. However, some failures cannot be avoided.
According to the statement made by NASA, the telescope’s near-infrared imaging and spectrograph – NIRISS module has malfunctioned and the flight system has been disabled. The Canadian Space Agency, which developed the module, and NASA are working together to find the source of the problem. It was also stated that there was no damage to the hardware part. It was stated that the discoveries made with NIRISS were interrupted for a while.
NIRISS module is used for 4 different researches. One is to analyze the elements that make up the atmosphere by analyzing light signals from exoplanets. The other is to examine objects that are very close in the field of view. The third is to be able to study thousands of galaxies at once, and the last is to study exoplanet transit spectroscopy. It can do some of these at the same time.
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