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Webb's first image of the sky was taken in the very early morning of Feb. 2, Marcia Rieke, principal investigator for the NIRCam instrument and regents professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said during the news conference.. The starlight was seen through each of Webb's 18 mirror segments in its primary mirror, so the resulting image shows a mosaic of 18 scattered bright dots.
This required the team to capture many images of this region of the sky to find the starlight with all 18 segments. Webb captured"more than 1,500 images in total," in this first observation, Perrin said. "At this point, we've been able to analyze multiple engineering images that help us understand the alignments and the mirrors and cells. And we don't see anything of concern," Feinberg said.
A"selfie" shows the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror as seen from a specialized camera inside the NIRCam instrument.This mission milestone is not taken lightly by the Webb team members. The space telescope faced decades of challenges and delays and after launch, had to undergo a risky deployment with hundreds of"single-point failures" that could've doomed the mission.
Feinberg added to Space.com that he feels"sort of mixed emotions right now." He shared that"after all these years, to actually see data when we're in zero gravity in space, it is emotional."
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