If a step during deployment goes wrong, mission managers at the. Harsh Vardhan NASA With the year 2022 ending, NASA has a special test for you that attempts to determine your personality in the most charming of ways. It will seek light emitted by the first stars and galaxies close to 14 billion years ago, and keep a sharp lookout for possible signs of life. ET Joey Roulette Reporting from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore NASA’s last resort. Launched last December, the $10 billion Webb is the largest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever sent into space. The Sunshield test unit to be used on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is stacked and expanded at a cleanroom in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California. “Just think of what we’re going to learn.” “It’s not until you actually see the kind of image that it delivers that you really internalize and go ‘wow!’” said University of Arizona’s Marcia Rieke, chief scientist for Webb’s near-infrared camera. The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test pictures of a neighboring satellite galaxy, and the results are stunning when compared with images taken by NASA’s previous infrared observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope.Įach of the 18 mirror segments on the new telescope is bigger than the single one on Spitzer. (AP) - NASA’s new space telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday.
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