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it will bounce back into the heart of the observatory whatever the main mirror sees. James Webb telescope: Sun shield is fully deployed World's biggest space telescope leaves Earth A $10bn machine ...

"We designed [the mirror wings] to operate in space ... Nasa project manager Bill Ochs told reporters. The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope is a joint venture between the US, European and Canadian ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has added another honor to its name by locating a record number of new stars in a faraway ...

NASA's James Webb telescope captures face of 'real monster' hidden in deep space ...

The mirror actuators on the James Webb Space Telescope are a perfect example of this extreme engineering, and to understand how they work a little better, [Zachary Tong] built a working model of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of the 18 beryllium-gold segments that makes up its main 6.5-meter mirror. It happened between ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Hubble telescope's replacement – the James Webb space telescope – just had its final mirror installed. The new telescope has been in the works since 1996 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, methane and carbon monoxide on exoplanet VHS 1256 b. The exoplanet is more ...

This is why especially space-based observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope love to hang around in these spots.