JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE Just Made Its First Ever Photo

JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE Just Made Its First Ever Photo (Picture)

During the image capturing process that began Feb. 2, Webb was repointed to 156 different positions around the predicted location of the star and generated 1,560 images using NIRCam’s 10 detectors, amounting to 54 gigabytes of raw data. The entire process lasted nearly 25 hours, but notedly the observatory was able to locate the target star in each of its mirror segments within the first six hours and 16 exposures. These images were then stitched together to produce a single, large mosaic that captures the signature of each primary mirror segment in one frame. The images shown here are only a center portion of that larger mosaic, a huge image with over 2 billion pixels.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's first target is a sun-like star in the Big Dipper constellation about 260 light years from the Earth.


Credit:
NASA.gov
ESA/ATG medialab
NASA Goddard Media Studios

Music:
"Hiding Your Reality" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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