James Webb Space Telescope Detects Its First Signal

Launched into deep space on December 24, 2021 James Webb Space TelescopeA short time ago, after a 1-month journey, it reached the L2 point, which is the observation point 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth, and settled in the position where it would illuminate the corners of the universe that we had not seen before. It was reported that the telescope, which will complete its orbit of the Sun every 180 days, will start its first scientific studies after 6 months.

Exciting news has come from the team behind the telescope, which has begun its three-month alignment period, according to a statement this week by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Webb team of the space telescope your first signal announced that he had detected it.

The first images from the telescope won’t be pretty.

According to the statement made by NASA, the Webb team was detected by the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and passed through the telescope. the first photons of starlight he saw.

The images that the telescope will begin to send to Earth in the coming period will not be very clear and focused at first; but scientists over time tweaks will make. NASA; Ball Aerospace reports that a team of engineers and scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has rehearsed the telescope’s alignment and is ready to go.

In the reports published by NASA, the images that the telescope will take during this process are not very different from the ones they will take in the summer. ‘beautiful‘ will not; but the telescope of these photos ‘science’ It was noted that it is very important to prepare for the name.