The James Web Telescope:
The James Web Telescope's 13 billion-year-old image of the universe continues to rage. In the meantime, the bad news was heard about this telescope. The telescope has been heavily damaged by several asteroids.
Scientists have recently reported this information in a research paper. This incident happened last May.
How was the cosmic world before the birth of the world? The James Web Space Telescope reported that the image of the galaxy 13 billion years ago. Just because of this galaxy, from the water vapor in the atmosphere of a distant gas planet to the moments just before the death of a star, this powerful telescope called Web has been brought to the human world after billions of years.
James Web Space is the world's most powerful telescope to date, several times more powerful than Hubble. The James Web Space Telescope, the world's largest and most powerful, was heavily damaged by the asteroid strike.
According to the paper, a group of scientists reported some problems with the telescope, which 'cannot be fixed.' They also said the telescope was 'overall little affected.'
A total of six micrometeorites hit the James Web Space Telescope's primary mirror on May 22. The sixth and last of these shocks resulted in major damage. Initially though it didn't seem too big. But now a new paper by scientists suggests it may be more serious than previously thought.
They say that it is normal for small asteroids to collide with telescopes in space. The telescope is made with that in mind. But James Web suffered more than one would expect from a concussion.
Scientists say the long-term effects of micrometeoroid impacts are of greatest concern today. This can gradually damage the primary mirror.
Scientists have informed about this before. But at that time they did not think that the damage was so great. There is only one relief for now. The resolution of the telescope's primary mirror is unaffected. However, James Web's engineers believe that mirrors and sunshields are bound to deteriorate gradually.
But there may be a possible solution to this. That is, avoiding orbital motions that have statistically higher micrometeoroids.
While building the telescope, engineers used a mix of simulations and actual test effects on mirror samples to get a clear idea of how to power the observatory for on-orbit operations, NASA said. This latest damaging effect was much larger than the model and beyond what the engineering team tested on the ground.
NASA worked with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency to build the James Web Space Telescope, which cost $10 billion. Launched on December 25, 2021, the James Web Space Telescope consists of the largest set of mirrors. Web has been orbiting the L-2 point since February this year, which is about one million miles or 1.6 million kilometers from Earth.
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