But sometime between May 23 and 25, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a micrometeoroid, ... The James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror is composed of 18 smaller (1.3 meter) ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An initial set of images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows that the spacecraft’s primary mirror is performing as expected during its months-long alignment process.

In the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland, a team of engineers has unveiled the vast gold-covered primary mirror of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

On July 12th, NASA will reveal the first full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory. ... JWST’s mirrors came into tight focus.

JWST has been able to discover galaxies with redshifts of 9 to 14, representing some of the most distant galaxies ever found, floating very far away in the infant cosmos. Redshift measurement methods ...

Building a mirror the size of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) 6.5-metre primary isn’t a problem per se. Building a 6.5-metre mirror that can fit inside an Ariane 5 rocket fairing just 4.57 ...

The mirrors for NASA's huge James Webb Space Telescope are now finished and ready for shipping to the space agency. ... The JWST mirror system includes 18 gold-coated, ultrasmooth, 4.2-foot ...

On March 3rd, a team of engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center succeeded in installing the secondary mirror onto the frame of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

JWST mirrors align with latest tweaks. 03 Mar 2022. Third of seven phases of optics tweaking now completed, with coarse phasing the next step. NASA says that it has successfully completed the latest ...

Now that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its final destination in space, ... JWST’s main mirror, stretching 6.5 meters or roughly 21 feet wide, ...

Secondary mirrors are smaller than primary mirrors and are held in place some distance away from the primary mirror by struts. In the case of JWST, the struts are 25 feet long .