An image of the Carina Nebula, captured on the James Webb Space Telescope, is shown at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) ...

Why Webb’s very first images will be blurry Testing Webb’s 21 feet/6.5 meter beryllium mirror—made up of 18 hexagonal gold-covered segments—is going to be a complicated and slow process.

NASA on Friday released the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope -- blurry photos that are being used to align the $10 billion observatory.

James Webb Telescope Snaps First Blurry Images of Far Off Star, Science to Start Soon. Published: 12 Feb 2022, 10:07 UTC • By: Benny Kirk. 7 photos. Photo: NASA (both images) ...

A glass plate image shows the Carina Nebula, left, taken in Arequipa, Peru, on April 7, 1896. The James Webb Space Telescope's image of the Carina Nebula, right.

With 48 lenses, it’s the equivalent of one giant 400mm f/0.4 lens (or a refracting telescope with a 39-inch diameter objective lens). What the Dragonfly array does A photo captured with the Dragonfly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached a crucial phase in the alignment of its mirrors. Images from this process have shown that everything is working even better than expected, and the ...

The admittedly blurry image was taken by a network of eight telescopes — forming the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — from across the globe that were all pointing at the same event.