{"id":399319,"date":"2022-01-25T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-space-telescope-reaches-final-stop-million-miles-out\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T15:54:48","slug":"new-space-telescope-reaches-final-stop-million-miles-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-space-telescope-reaches-final-stop-million-miles-out\/","title":{"rendered":"#New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/AP22024693827889.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The world\u2019s biggest, most powerful space telescope arrived at its observation post 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>On command, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters for nearly five minutes to go into orbit around the sun at its designated location, and NASA confirmed the operation went as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The mirrors on the $10 billion observatory still must be meticulously aligned, the infrared detectors sufficiently chilled and the scientific instruments calibrated before observations can begin in June.<\/p>\n<p>But flight controllers in Baltimore were euphoric after chalking up another success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re one step closer to uncovering the mysteries of the universe. And I can\u2019t wait to see Webb\u2019s first new views of the universe this summer!\u201d NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The telescope will enable astronomers to peer back further in time than ever before, all the way back to when the first stars and galaxies were forming 13.7 billion years ago. That\u2019s a mere 100 million years from the Big Bang, when the universe was created.<\/p>\n<p>Besides making stellar observations, Webb will scan the atmospheres of alien worlds for possible signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWebb is officially on station,\u201d said Keith Parrish, a manager on the project. \u201cThis is just c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing off just a remarkable 30 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The telescope was launched from French Guiana on Christmas. A week and a half later, a sunshield as big as a tennis court stretched open on the telescope. The instrument\u2019s gold-coated primary mirror \u2014 21 feet (6.5 meters) across \u2014 unfolded a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>The primary mirror has 18 hexagonal segments, each the size of a coffee table, that will have to be painstakingly aligned so that they see as one \u2014 a task that will take three months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a month in and the baby hasn\u2019t even opened its eyes yet,\u201d Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist, said of the telescope\u2019s infrared instruments. \u201cBut that\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> that we\u2019re looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s thruster firing put the telescope in orbit around the sun at the so-called second Lagrange point, where the gravitational forces of the sun and Earth balance each other. The 7-ton spacecraft will loop-de-loop around that point while also circling the sun. It will always face Earth\u2019s night side to keep its infrared detectors as frigid as possible.<\/p>\n<p>At 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, Webb is more than four times as distant as the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The Webb is expected to operate for well over a decade, maybe two.<\/p>\n<p>Considered the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits 330 miles (530 kilometers) up, Webb is too far away for emergency repairs. That makes the milestones over the past month \u2014 and the ones ahead \u2014 all the more critical.<\/p>\n<p>Spacewalking astronauts performed surgery five times on Hubble. The first operation, in 1993, corrected the telescope\u2019s blurry vision, a flaw introduced during the mirror\u2019s construction on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Whether chasing optical and ultraviolet light like Hubble or infrared light like Webb, telescopes can see farther and more clearly when operating above Earth\u2019s distorting atmosphere. That\u2019s why NASA teamed up with the European and Canadian space agencies to get Webb and its mirror \u2014 the largest ever launched \u2014 into the cosmos.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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(AP) \u2014 The world\u2019s biggest, most powerful space telescope arrived at its observation post 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe. 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