The James Webb Space Telescope, located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, has completed the alignment phase of its scientific instruments, which began to work to explore the history of the universe, according to what the US space agency “NASA” announced.
The four massive instruments, 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 after the launch of James Webb from French Guiana.
In a statement, NASA said that each instrument had reached its “operational temperature” and was ready to perform its scientific missions.
While waiting for the first scientific observations images that are expected to be sent by “James Webb” in the summer, it turned out 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.
James Webb, which cost NASA $ 10 billion, according to estimates, is the most powerful telescope ever in the history of space exploration, and will allow observing the first galaxies that formed about 200 million years after the Big Bang.