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NASA: New Video Brings a 'Golden Touch' Behind the Webb

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NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center/David Higginbotham​
The gold layer coating, only a few millionths of an inch thick, enables the mirrors to best reflect the infrared light the telescope seeks.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Gunn​


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NASA: Second Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb Space Telescope:
The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the telescope to accurately and precisely point at the correct, intended objects for it to observe. The FGS is packaged together as a single unit with the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) science instrument.

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The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph combined undergoing cryogenic testing.
Credit: COM DEV Canada​

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NASA: First Two Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors Delivered to NASA

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Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope's first two flight mirrors in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn


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This photo shows one of the two mirrors, while the other awaits opening in its shipping canister. The mirrors have arrived at their new home at NASA, where they will be residing at the giant cleanroom at Goddard for a while as technicians check them out.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn​



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Can someone explain, why the reflection in the mirror in the second picture is not inverted?Perspective looks correct though. First guess would be its geometry, but the first image was taken from a similar angle and yet that one look normal. Seems a bit weird, doesn't it?
 

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In the second picture, the camera was beyond the mirror's focal point, thus the inverted image.
 

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NASA: Blanketing NASA's Webb Telescope's Science Instrument Electronics

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Engineers Josh Lutter (on the right), Bruce Haines (center) and Scott Lam (on the left) tuck layers of blanketing in-between the gold-colored louvers on the James Webb Space Telescope's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) Electronics Compartment (IEC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The blanketing insulates and shields the flight instruments and the louvers will keep heat away from the temperature-sensitive instruments that will peer through dust clouds to see how stars form.​
 

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You're looking at the eye that will see into creation itself. Big telescopes are sexy and romantic - this JWST rig is no exception.
 

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NASA: The Webb Telescope's Holiday Package

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This photo shows the James Webb Space Telescope's "IEC" all wrapped up in a thermal blanket, and looking like a holiday package at a cleanroom in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
 
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