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"Since the European Space Agency launched NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
from French Guiana, on Christmas Day, 2021, the telescope has hovered in space
about a million miles from Earth. During its voyage, the J.W.S.T. unfolded like
a piece of origami, releasing an array of solar panels, a powerful antenna, a
honeycomb of golden mirrors, and a sunshield that looks like a set of silver
sails. Scientists then spent more than three months aligning its mirrors with
nanometre precision. About a year after the telescope released its first
images, Jane Rigby, the top NASA scientist working on the project, told me that
it has “performed not only better than requirements but better than we could
have possibly dreamed.” Recently, the Webb helped to show that galaxies in the
first billion years of the universe were more active than previously thought,
forming lots of stars in big bursts. “There were predictions, but this was
terra incognita, past the cliff of what Hubble could do, and expectations were
all over the map,” Rigby told me. “Where we had ignorance, we now have
beautiful data.” Recently, in celebration of the telescope’s first year of
science operations, the Webb team published an anniversary image of stars being
born in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the stellar nursery closest to Earth."
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