Cairo – the middle gate Saturday 30 April 2022, 4:00 pm
The US Space Agency announced that the James Webb Space Telescope, which is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, has completed the phase of aligning its scientific instruments, which began to work to explore the history of the universe.
The four huge instruments, which are three imaging devices and a spectrograph, were successfully aligned along the main mirror (6.5 meters in diameter), whose deployment was achieved in early January, two weeks following the launch of “James Webb” from French Guiana, according to “AFP”.
And “NASA” explained in a statement, Thursday, that each instrument has reached its “operational temperature” and is ready to perform its scientific tasks.
James Webb
While waiting for the first scientific observations images that are expected to be sent by “James Webb” in the summer, it was found that the tools are able to “take clear and targeted images,” such as those taken by the “Miriam” imaging device for stars and gas in a large cloud belonging to the small planet Magellan within the galaxy trail. Milky Way.
And Pierre-Olivier Lagag, the scientific officer in charge of “Miriam” at the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Authority, tweeted that “the first picture was amazing because it was the quality we wanted,” adding that “things are going well.”
“I am very sure that the science will advance greatly with James Webb,” the astrophysicist continued.
James Webb reaches the ideal location for observing the universe’s first galaxies
“These unique experimental images show what people across countries and continents can achieve when there is a brave scientific vision to explore the universe,” said Lee Feinberg, James Webb Optical Instruments Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
James Webb, which cost NASA $10 billion, is the most powerful telescope ever in the history of space exploration, and it will allow observing the first galaxies that formed regarding 200 million years following the Big Bang.
