The beautiful shots are just a taste of what’s to come.
). Once in place, scientists at the ESA and its partners in the US, Canada, and Japan hope to gain radical new insights into the very formation and expansion of the universe as well as the role played by dark energy, dark matter, and gravity in all of that.
The first test images, captured by the telescope’s two onboard cameras — the VISible instrument and the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer — are a series of detailed shots of the night sky, showing a vast collection of stars, star clusters, galaxies, and more. Knud Jahnke of the , a partner involved in the project, says the images are “not yet usable for scientific purposes” but that the two instruments are “working superbly in space.”The first test images comprise a swath of sky approximately a “quarter of the width and height of the full moon.” The ESA says they must be processed to remove “unwanted artefacts” such as the cosmic rays that streak across the pictures.
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