The first science work for the $10 billion telescope should start in the early summer.
A comparison of views of the same part of the sky as seen by NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope and the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.The days are ticking away before NASA's massive new observatory shows us the cosmos as we've never seen it before.is powering through a complicated six-month commissioning period.
The good news is that so far, the $10 billion observatory is blowing expectations away as it enters a stretch of long-anticipated science work that mission personnel hope"There's no adjustments in the telescope optics that would make material improvements or science performance, and we will regularly monitor and maintain the telescope alignment for the life of the mission," Michael McElwain, Webb observatory project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
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