The $10bn successor to Hubble is fully focussed and aligned. It's close now to starting work.
James Webb, astronomy's new super space telescope, has taken another major step to full operational capability.
"We've now reached the end of the telescope alignment phase - we've delivered perfectly focussed images to all of the science instruments," explained Prof Mark McCaughrean, senior science advisor for the European Space Agency. The images show slightly different views of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.The sizes and positions of the images depict the relative arrangement of each of Webb's instruments as they pick up the light coming from the telescope's golden mirrors, including from its 6.5m-wide primary reflector.
There will be elation today across a host of contributing British institutions to see MIRI's first published image. They'll also train the telescope's big "eye" on the atmospheres of distant planets to see if those worlds might be habitable.
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