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For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors.
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The colour in this images is false: they’re each monochromatic images rendered with a colour table to make them “interesting”. The LMC is pretty distant & without knowing how long these integrations are, I’d say they’re just stars. We can’t see Jupiter mass objects at 55kpc.

newolder wrote:Alignment complete for all instruments:

NASA blogpost

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For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors.
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felltoearth wrote:It’s full of stars!

There were many delays and cost overruns, including a major redesign in 2005, a ripped sunshield during a practice deployment, recommendations from an independent review board, a threat by the U.S. Congress to cancel the project, the COVID-19 pandemic,[8] and problems with the telescope itself.

On September 8, 2021, ESA announced that the official planned launch date is December 18, 2021. On November 22, 2021, NASA announced that the official planned launch date was delayed by four days to December 22, 2021, following a problem encountered when mating JWST to its payload adapter.

NASA said Monday it fixed minor issues on the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, with a project manager hoping for a "boring" status. Flight controllers in Maryland reset Webb's solar panel to draw more power and repointed the telescope to restrict sunlight on six overheating motors. 3 Jan 2022

At risk of tempting fate, how in hell has it been possible to have a project as long and complicated as the JWST be so comprehensively successful?

The Adventure Twins
Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars January 3 and January 24, 2004 PST (Jan. 4 and Jan. 25 UTC). Both rovers lived well beyond their planned 90-day missions. Opportunity worked nearly 15 years on Mars and broke the driving record for putting the most miles on the odometer

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Sagan wrote:From this distant vantage point... ho-ly fuck! I'm going to need a bigger bong.

Macdoc wrote:I suspect that it's built into NASA DNA to over engineer

Macdoc wrote:O-ring was not a specific design flaw - the ship should not have flown in that temperature....the powers were warned and they went ahead.