Star twinkles 18 times in new James Webb Space Telescope image
The image reflects the observatory’s distinctive hexagonal mirror. The James Webb Space Telescope finished the first major stage in its long process of aligning the observatory’s 18-segmented primary mirror. A single star that the observatory looked at was deliberately rendered 18 times into a hexagonal shape. Eventually, those 18 images will perfectly align into a single, sharp focus, but …
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