Since the launch of James Web Space Telescope in December last year, engineers are working to deploy the telescope's hardware, then align both its mirrors and its equipment. Now, months-long processes have been completed, and the telescope is confirmed to be completely aligned. NASA and the European Space Agency shared an image showing a sharp investigation into all the web equipment, showing that they are all crisp and properly focused.
“Each device displays engineering pictures of rapidly focused stars in the field of visualization of each tool that is fully aligned and in mind,” European Space Agency Write“For this test, the web indicated on the part of the large Magalanic Cloud, a small satellite of Milky Way, which provides a dense area of hundreds of thousands of stars in the sensor of all the observatory. The size and positions of the pictures shown here have been depicted in another focal plane, another one and another, another person's relatively depicted.
The four equipment under consideration are mid-infrared instruments (MIRI), Near-Earcam (NIRCAM), Near-Early Spectrograph (Nirspec), and near-Equivalent Images and Slitless Spectrograph/Fine Guidance Sensors (Niriss/FGS). They are three imaging instruments and a spectrograph (which is a tool to detect the composition of the objects by separating the light they separate the given light), but the spectrograph can also be used to take images – such as pictures shown above which are used for calibration and target selection. If you look at the Nirspec image, you will see the black band beyond it, which causes it. Microatter array Which allows it to open and close small windows so that the device can inspect up to 100 items at the same time.
All four devices are indicated at the same target so that the engineers can check that they were all sharp and accurate as they should be. And the results are better than the expectation of engineers, which results in high level of image quality, which means tools are diffracted-which means they are obtained in the maximum amount of expansion for the size of the binoculars.
With the completion of the alignment, now the team can start turning on each device. This involves configuring and examining parts of the equipment such as masks and filters to ensure that they are ready for science operations. Some final telescope calibration processes are also required, such as the telescope remains at a stable temperature when going from one target to another. Once all this happens, binoculars are scheduled to start science operations in this summer.
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