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> After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope ever launched is now complete.
> On 8 January, NASAβs James Webb Space Telescope slowly swung the last 3 of its 18 hexagonal mirror segments into position, locking them together into one 6.5-metre-wide, gold-coated cosmic eye.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586β¦
Wooohooo, they did it! Deep respect for everyone who made this ridiculously complex mission work as planned. Looking forward to years and years of new space history, both in the sense of history being made and past history being discovered.
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