NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Alignment Complete – Capturing Crisp, Focused Images

NASA Goddard ^ | 28 April 2022 | Thaddeus Cesari

[rktman]

You should see the pics from the camera I just installed in the garage. Even when all the lights are out it’s pretty good. :>}

[Howie66]

BFL

[Savage Beast]

WOW! Look at all those worlds, floating around in a turbulent “sea” of constantly changing time, space, gravity and only God knows what all!

[devane617]

and what am I looking at? they all look the same...black with whit/orange/redish looking dots...

[muir_redwoods]

You’re looking at Webb photos of known, previously photographed areas of the universe. These and those earlier photos will be compared to verify and measure improved resolution.

[G Larry]

Webb started announcing major delays while I was working at the Sunnyvale facility in 2006.

Nice to see its finally working.

[zeestephen]

As far as I know, everything they have tested so far is working at specification or higher.

I can remember when the repaired Hubble telescope knocked our socks off with some of its first perfectly focused false color images.

That was 1993 according to Wiki.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There is a great video in the Scietech article about the Webb instruments just published today. Here is the direct YouTube link...

James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Overview

[blam]

I’m expecting some ‘jaw-dropping’ discoveries from this instrument.

[Alas Babylon!]

JWST uses an infrared camera. It won’t show in our normal eyed “color” spectrum.

However, the infrared picture will see things that go far beyond what we can see in normal light and give us data that can be manipulated/extrapolated into color pictures that should stun us.