NASA said that the position of the telescope is exactly as planned. Although it will take another six months to become fully operational, the telescope's primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal segments, each about the size of an acre coffee table. Now NASA's task is to align these mirrors perfectly, this task will take three months, the infrared detectors need to be cooled, and the scientific equipment needs to be calibrated. The researchers said that it will take until June to start the observation work, on the opposite side of the Sun. That is, the telescope will start observing from the dark side, then slowly start to capture various unseen pictures of space.
The James Webb Space Telescope traveled to space on December 25 last year from French Guiana in South America on the European Ariana rocket. It has cost about one thousand billion dollars. This powerful telescope is so powerful that it can easily detect anything flying from space to Earth, the optics of this telescope is made of a fine layer of gold, the layer reflects infrared light keeping the telescope cool, it has 5 layers in the shape of a tennis court to protect the cameras from the heat of the sun. Sun shield installed. The diameter of the telescope is 21 meters. 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope, launched in 1990, it will detect galaxies, meteors, and planets in the early universe. It will also probe the atmospheres of distant planets, and observe the atmospheres of distant stars and, on average, the universe. Every star has a planet, so maybe it will help us find future Earths, perhaps the James Webb Telescope will give future astrophysicists the key to new mysteries.
NASA's mission is expected to operate for more than a decade, but five years is the goal. The telescope, 30 years in the making, is one of the greatest scientific endeavors of the 21st century. However, this telescope also has challenges. To detect this subtle signal, there will be no large thermal objects around the telescope, an umbrella made of a type of polymer compound Kapton will be used to protect from the sun's heat. Kapton is a type of material that resists heat and can still perform essential functions at much lower temperatures. The telescope's main mirror used a hearing plate, because gold does not react easily, and is also very effective for infrared reflection. The Hubble telescope is close to Earth and can be repaired, but the James Webb telescope is far away and there is no way to fix it.
So it was sent after a lengthy response to ensure the final checks and precautions of the technology, and a big challenge is that there is no rocket of the size of the telescope, so it is designed to be shipped folded up and unfolded on arrival to observe the structure. Engineers from space agencies in Europe, America, and Canada worked to build the telescope, working long hours to make it 100 times more powerful than any previous telescope.
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