Webb Telescope Rescheduled To Launch Christmas Morning

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived!

Webb has completed the mid-course correction burn (MCC2), an insertion burn that has guided it into its orbit around its final home in space, NASA announced in a blog post today (Jan. 24).

Beginning at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), the space telescope fired its onboard thrusters for about five minutes (297 seconds) to complete this burn maneuver. The burn added just about 2.6 miles per hour (1.6 meters per second) (a walking pace, NASA noted), to Webb's speed as the craft sailed into a halo orbit around its destination: L2, the second sun-Earth Lagrange point.

Discussion today at 3 PM at NASA.
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NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully.

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While the purpose of this image was to focus on the bright star at the center for alignment evaluation, Webb's optics and NIRCam are so sensitive that the galaxies and stars seen in the background show up. At this stage of Webb’s mirror alignment, known as “fine phasing,” each of the primary mirror segments have been adjusted to produce one unified image of the same star using only the NIRCam instrument. This image of the star, which is called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast.

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Read an article that spoke of the mirror alignments being done.
Moving them in increments of 100ths the width of a human hair or some shit! :surprised:
 
jvett77 said:
NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully.

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While the purpose of this image was to focus on the bright star at the center for alignment evaluation, Webb's optics and NIRCam are so sensitive that the galaxies and stars seen in the background show up. At this stage of Webb’s mirror alignment, known as “fine phasing,” each of the primary mirror segments have been adjusted to produce one unified image of the same star using only the NIRCam instrument. This image of the star, which is called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast.

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Context of knowing what they were doing here really makes this alignment shot amazing. It still pulled all those galaxies in the background AND it’s all so crisp. This going to be amazing!
 
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Webb space telescope has sustained its first noticeable micrometeoroid impact less than six months after launch, but the agency isn't too concerned. NASA officials are confident that the $10 billion telescope will still perform adequately. After an impact occurs, engineers can individually adjust the 18 primary mirror segments on the observatory to keep the mirror as a whole finely tuned.
James Webb Space Telescope hit by micrometeoroid just months into flight

Webb's First Images in :
18 days
19hrs
July 12, 2022 10:30am EDT (14:30 GMT)
 
As they promised, here’s first Webb image. Over 6 months after launch. More tomorrow.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the image to the president, saying all the stars and galaxies it encompassed were located in an area of space the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone standing on Earth.

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jvett77 said:
As they promised, here’s first Webb image. Over 6 months after launch. More tomorrow.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the image to the president, saying all the stars and galaxies it encompassed were located in an area of space the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone standing on Earth.

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Holy…..shit!! Unbelievable.
 
jvett77 said:
As they promised, here’s first Webb image. Over 6 months after launch. More tomorrow.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the image to the president, saying all the stars and galaxies it encompassed were located in an area of space the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone standing on Earth.

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We dont mean shit in the scheme of the universe.
 
ojb81 said:
doesn't matter whether you believe me or not. it's true.
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It doesnt matter, to anything, especially to what doesnt exist at all. Man made god, not the other way around, imo.
 
Peter Gozintite said:
It doesnt matter, to anything, especially to what doesnt exist at all. Man made god, not the other way around, imo.
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jvett77 said:
As they promised, here’s first Webb image. Over 6 months after launch. More tomorrow.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the image to the president, saying all the stars and galaxies it encompassed were located in an area of space the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone standing on Earth.

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The distortion surrounding the the white orb and it’s associated cloud, what is that?

Any idea?

(Really hard to wrap my mind around all the faint points in the background when you zoom in.)
 
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