NASA releases first images from the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA has shared a mosaic of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The created mosaic image showcases 18 different views of a star from each of the telescope’s primary mirror, which consists of 18 gold-plated hexagonal segments.

First images from James Webb

The James Webb Space Telescope, which cost 10 billion dollars and was launched in the last days of last year, will provide information about the universe 13.6 billion years ago. In a new blog post, NASA shared a mosaic created from the first images captured by the space telescope from Feb.

The light collected from each of the 18 different mirrors constituting the primary mirror was reflected onto the secondary mirror. The lights reflected from here were directed to the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) to obtain images. Redirected to 156 different locations based on the estimated position of the star HD 84406. Using NIRCam’s 10 detectors, a total of 54GB of raw data was provided. The final image, created using 1560 images, has more than 2 billion pixels. The image shared by NASA shows only the middle part of this large image.

NASA researchers, this first study While he states that he is very excited about it, he says that this will not be much of a reference about the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope. In the coming period, the research team will gradually adjust the mirror parts to ensure that the image obtained from the 18 mirrors will show a single star.