The James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed, NASA says, and will spend roughly 2 weeks journeying to its final destination.
Over the past 14 days, the observatory’s enormous gold-coated primary mirror and smaller secondary mirror were unfurled, and the telescope’s multilayered sunshield was extended.
, which was folded up neatly inside a rocket for its much-anticipated launch on Christmas Day, is now fully deployed, NASA said Saturday. NASA has nicknamed the deployment process and the remainder of the telescope's trip to its final orbit"29 days on the edge" because of the complexity of the procedures.The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is designed to study the early days of the universe, roughly 100 million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars formed in the cosmos.
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