Nasa lines up newly launched space telescope

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The James Webb Space Telescope is about 100 times more powerful than Hubble

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Engineering teams at Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope mission operations centre at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore monitor progress as the observatory’s second primary mirror wing rotates into position on January 8 2022. Picture: NASA/BILL INGALLS

Consisting of 18 hexagonal segments of gold-plated beryllium metal, the primary mirror measures 6.5m in diameter — a much larger light-collecting surface than Webb’s predecessor, the 30-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. The alignment will take an additional three months, said Lee Feinberg, the Webb optical telescope element manager at Goddard.

The telescope’s smaller, secondary mirror, designed to direct light collected from the primary lens into Webb’s camera and other instruments, must also be aligned to operate as part of a cohesive optical system.

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