NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured never-before-seen details in Pandora's Cluster, including a megacluster that has created a gravitational lens.
Ball Aerospace lead optical test engineer Dave Chaney inspects six primary mirror segments, critical elements of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, prior to cryogenic testing in the X-ray & Cryogenic Facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Engineers and technicians assemble the James Webb Space Telescope on Nov. 2, 2016, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Labbe's team used the Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, to capture the cluster, for a total of around 30 hours of observing time. The next step for the team will be to go through imaging data and select galaxies for follow-up observation with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph .
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