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English: Imaging of the star HD 84406 during commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope, showing the effect of 2rd phase "Segment Alignment", released by NASA on 2022-02-25.
After stage 1, the 18 primary mirror segments were only roughly aligned, so far, and not yet focused. So the image showed 18 blurred copies of the same star, in a hexagonal pattern. In phase 2, these were aligned and focused more, as shown by this animation. During the following 3 months, the mirrors will be aligned fully, to focus and synchronize their separate images into one complete image. |
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| Source | https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/25/webb-mirror-alignment-continues-successfully/ |
| Author | NASA (via James Webb Space Telescope). |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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