'The entire Webb team is ecstatic' 🤔 engineering
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first photo — and it’s beautiful., is a composite that shows light from one star as it was reflected by each of the gold-plated segments of the telescope’s primary mirror.to bring all 18 of the hexagonal segments into alignment.
“Launching Webb to space was of course an exciting event, but for scientists and optical engineers, this is a pinnacle moment,” he says.The subject of the photo, HD 84406, is a bright star in the Ursa Major constellation. In the night sky, it appears just to the right of the Big Dipper. Engineers chose the star because there are no nearby stars that would contaminate the image.
The Near Infrared Camera’s 10 detectors took a total of 1,560 images, which were stitched together into a mosaic of roughly 2 billion pixels.
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