Tag: James Webb Space Telescope

With the James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its destination, the telescope has to go through a series of alignment processes to get it ready for science.

Four weeks after launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached the location from where it will explore deep space over the coming years.

As the James Webb Space Telescope makes its final burn to enter its orbit around the sun, NASA will broadcast a Science Live show about the event.

Webb is set to arrive at its new home on Monday: A location almost one million miles away called L2, or the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.

With deployment complete, the James Webb Space Telescope team is now embarking on their next challenge: Aligning the telescope’s mirror segments.

Watch this new NASA video in which members of the James Webb Space Telescope team talk about the mission in the run up to its Christmas Day launch.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been fully deployed, marking an important milestone in preparing the observatory for science operations.

With the final deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope today, you might be disappointed there won’t be videos of the telescope unfolding. Here’s why.

Following the successful deployment of the Webb telescope’s sunshield and secondary mirror, the mission team is now focusing on the next crucial step.

The James Webb Space Telescope is still unfolding, and tomorrow will see the tensioning of its sunshield. Here’s how to watch live coverage of the event.