{"id":136095,"date":"2022-02-26T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/webb-turns-those-18-separate-star-images-into-a-single-unified-star-next-comes-even-better-focus"},"modified":"2022-02-26T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:22:42","slug":"webb-turns-those-18-separate-star-images-into-a-single-unified-star-next-comes-even-better-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/webb-turns-those-18-separate-star-images-into-a-single-unified-star-next-comes-even-better-focus","title":{"rendered":"Webb turns those 18 separate star images into a single unified star. Next comes even better focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-turns-those-18-separate-star-images-into-a-single-unified-star-next-comes-even-better-focus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s coming together! Engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope have now completed two more phases of the seven-step, three-month-long mirror alignment process. This week, the team made more adjustments to the mirror segments along with updating the alignment of its secondary mirror. These refinements allowed for all 18 mirror segments to work together \u2014 for the first time \u2014 to produce one unified image.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the image above, this view of the star HD 84,406 shows one image instead of the 18 views \u2013 one from each segment \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/154623\/heres-exactly-how-engineers-are-aligning-jwsts-segmented-mirrors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that we saw earlier this week.<\/a> NASA engineers say that after future alignment steps, the image will be even sharper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have work to do, but we are increasingly pleased with the results we\u2019re seeing,\u201d said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for Webb, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2022\/02\/25\/webb-mirror-alignment-continues-successfully\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a blog post<\/a>. \u201cYears of planning and testing are paying dividends, and the team could not be more excited to see what the next few weeks and months bring.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s coming together! Engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope have now completed two more phases of the seven-step, three-month-long mirror alignment process. This week, the team made more adjustments to the mirror segments along with updating the alignment of its secondary mirror. These refinements allowed for all 18 mirror segments to work together \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}