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Earlier this year, the telescope reached the L2 point, and over the next six months, it has been busy putting its mirrors in place and testing if all instruments are working as per their mission requirements. Last month, we reported that the Webb Space Telescope has begun and astronomers and space enthusiasts eager to know what new information the telescope will bring.
NASA set the 12th of July as the date it will release the first scientific-quality images from the telescope, and five days before this date, it released an image to provide a glimpse of what we can expect in the future. Interestingly, the image released is not even from an instrument that is supposed to do imagery on the telescope.
The FGS simply uses images to determine where it has to point, and then it deletes them. However, since the Webb Space Telescope was still in a testing phase, scientists realized that they could use the limited data bandwidth to download these images as well. was doing a thermal stability test, this image captured by the FGS to check how well the telescope stayed locked onto a target was captured and retained.
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