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Monitoring Webb’s Mirrors for Optimal Optics
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed…

Nov 8, 2024
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Talking with Webb using the Deep Space Network
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometer) away from Earth, orbiting around the Sun-Earth…

Aug 15, 2023
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Saturn’s Rings Shine in Webb’s Observations of Ringed Planet
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Editor's Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.…

Jun 30, 2023
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How Webb’s Coronagraphs Reveal Exoplanets in the Infrared
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The study of exoplanets is a key part of the James Webb Space Telescope's science goals. We asked Webb's Deputy…

Mar 24, 2023
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Breaking the Tracking Speed Limit With Webb
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In September, the James Webb Space Telescope observed as NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally smashed a spacecraft into…

Feb 8, 2023
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Senior Project Scientist John Mather Reflects on Journey to Webb’s First Images
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People around the world joined together in excitement as the first color scientific images and spectra from NASA's James Webb…

Jul 15, 2022
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Is Now Fully Ready for Science
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The months-long process of preparing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete. All of the seventeen ways…

Jul 11, 2022
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Webb’s NIRSpec Acquires Multiple Targets
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The Webb team has now approved 10 out of 17 science instrument modes; since last week we added (14) MIRI…

Jun 23, 2022
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy Will Reveal Molecules, Elements
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team continues to work its way through the 17 science instrument modes. This week they…

Jun 16, 2022
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