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NASAs James Webb Space Telescope team has begun the three-month process of aligning the telescope. To work together as a single mirror, the telescopes 18 primary mirror segments need to match each other to a fraction of a wavelength of light.
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 11, to share progress made in the early stages of aligning the James Webb Space Telescopes mirrors. The agency will livestream audio of the teleconference on its website.
Engineers and scientists will review the first weeks of the months-long alignment process and discuss early imagery that shows how the Webb team has identified starlight through each of telescopes 18 hexagonal mirror segments. NASA will make this imagery available at 10:30 a.m. before the call on the Webb telescope blog.
Teleconference participants include:
- Lee Feinberg, Webb optical telescope element manager, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
- Marshall Perrin, Webb deputy telescope scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore
- Marcia Rieke, principal investigator for the NIRCam instrument and regents professor of astronomy, University of Arizona in Tucson
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