If you think that the beautiful photos from space only need one click of the cameras in space instruments, think again. Obtaining images of different celestial objects requires time, effort, and a lot of technological power. Take the James Webb Space Telescope’s project of capturing a star that it looked at as an example.
This single star was rendered 18 times into a hexagonal shape, which will be aligned into a single, sharp focus image of the heavenly object. The current result from the interim stage looks like a space snowflake. The star’s images are placed in this pattern so that they have the same relative locations as the telescope’s mirrors. Read more about it here!
Image credit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale
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They're already done the next alignment step as of Feb. 25.https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/25/webb-mirror-alignment-continues-successfully/
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