The mirrors and instruments working together will enable the huge observatory's science observations.
An early image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows one star 18 times during the continuing mirror-alignment process.with its mirror alignment and future observations, with several key steps achieved in recent days, according to NASA.
The filter wheel for the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph has been successfully calibrated, allowing this key part of the Fine Guidance System to assist with alignment activities, agency officials wrote in aWheel tuning also took place for the Near Infrared Camera or NIRCam, which is best known in the mission so far for taking aof the 18 individual mirror segments at work earlier this month.
"There are hundreds of activities like these planned during the commissioning process, and each is as important as the next to ensure that Webb can achieve its ambitious science goals," NASA officials wrote in the update.
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