(ANSA) – Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) Two weeks after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest six-meter-diameter magnifying glass has fully opened and completed its deployment phase. Following the sophisticated implementation of the Big Telescope, a panel of technologists celebrated NASA’s announcement at the Baltimore Telescope Science Institute Hall in Maryland. The U.S. space agency recalled the extreme complexity and taste of sorting all the components of a web telescope folded so that it could enter the narrow space of the nose of the Ariane 5 rocket, which was launched into space from French Guiana on Christmas Day. . Webb opened his solar shield a few days ago, which is shaped like a kite and is 21 meters long, which protects the telescope from light, heat and solar radiation.
Meanwhile, the complex moves toward its selected orbital point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, called the LockRange 2 (L2) point, where it will be in equilibrium and reach it in a few weeks. And from where it begins to explore deep space, it will reach optical distances that have never been reached before – as close as possible – astronomers’ theory – to the original universe near the Big Bang 13 and a half billion years ago.
Thomas Surbuchen, one of NASA’s chief engineers, said, “I was flexible, what an incredible milestone.
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