First photos from James Webb telescope better than expected.
The James Webb telescope has taken exceptional images of an unexceptional star as a test of its capabilities. The star, known as HD84406.
Hasnain says:
This is so exciting!
““The telescope’s performance so far is everything that we dared to hope,” says Jane Rigby, Webb operations project scientist at Goddard. “The engineering images that we saw today are as sharp and as crisp as the images that Hubble can take, but are at a wavelength of light that is totally invisible to Hubble. So this is making the invisible universe snapping into very, very sharp focus.””
Posted on 2022-03-19T06:18:33+0000