The mirror actuators on the James Webb Space Telescope are a perfect example of this extreme engineering, and to understand how they work a little better, [Zachary Tong] built a working model of ...
A technician stands before six gold-plated mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror. The JWST's infrared viewing capability allows it see through much of the dust that ...
The technological marvel that is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... To do this, it's been given a 6.5m-wide, golden mirror that engineers are now checking one last time.
Telescope mirrors require some kind of metal coating to reflect as much light as possible. JWST uses gold mirrors to catch UV and visible light emitted by early luminous objects. Secondly ...
it will bounce back into the heart of the observatory whatever the main mirror sees. James Webb telescope: Sun shield is fully deployed World's biggest space telescope leaves Earth A $10bn machine ...