NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
NASA James Webb The telescope is one step closer to normal operation. Earlier it was officially announced that the telescope is now fully deployed and all core deployment work has been completed. In the next month or so, researchers will need to move the primary mirror to calibrate the optical system of the telescope, but in general this set of 10 billion US dollars device should be in a very good condition.
As the telescope moves towards the foreground of the L2 point of Langrangian between the earth and the sun, it will then make a third orbit correction. After arrival, astronomers will use the information they obtain to study undisturbed infrared light, which may bring about the mysteries of the universe that Hubble and other devices have not discovered.
According to NASA’s plan, James Webb expects to return the first batch of images this summer. Of course, we have to wait and see what kind of results the image can finally be transformed into.
#NASAWebb is fully deployed! ????
With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that’s:
50 major deployments, complete.
178 pins, released.
20+ years of work, realized.Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2! pic.twitter.com/mDfmlaszzV
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) January 8, 2022