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The world’s most powerful telescope unfurled its final mirror today as it sped away to its final destination one million miles from earth. NASA completed the final step of the Webb telescope’s difficult two-week initiation process Saturday, unfolding the final 21-foot piece: its ‘golden eye.’ NPR science correspondent Joe Palca joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain more about the telescope, its design, and its purpose.
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The new james webb telescope has completed a crucial task in its quest to observe some of the most distant objects in the universe. its controllers completed the deployment of the space observatory�*s giant kite—shaped sun shield, which is the size of a tennis court. the barrier will allow the telescope to detect signals deep in space, including from objects present during the formation of the first galaxies. the men's tennis world number one, novak djokovic, will defend his australian open title in a fortnight, after receiving a medical exemption to take part without having a covid vaccin...
Provide new insights into the existence of life on other planets. >> it will help us understand possibilities and maybe even the probability of potential life forms, although we're not looking for a life form itself, we're looking for the environment that would allow life to thrive. >> reporter: to reach this point has taken $10 billion and combined brain power of thousands, from 14 countries. but it's still just at the beginning. over the next few weeks, webb will continue deploying its antennas, sun shield, and mirrors. each procedure a critical and complicated step to fully assemble the tel...
We've never attempted anything like that in space before. we're going to be entering a whole new regime of astrophysics. a new frontier. and that is what gets so many of us excited about james webb space telescope. this space telescope is a feat of engineering. at its heart is a 6.5 metre—wide mirror, made up of 18 hexagonal segments, each coated in a layer of gold. its size means it can detect the incredibly faint light coming from the most distant stars. it also has a huge sun shield, about the size of a tennis court. it's made up of five layers, each as thin as a human hair, and this prot...