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JWST Celebrates First Anniversary with Image of Stellar Nursery
On February 6th, 2023, The European Space Agency announced the record-breaking discovery of the smallest known asteroid in the asteroid belt. Measuring under one kilometer wide, the James Webb Space Telescope detected the asteroid “completely unexpectedly” while undergoing calibration tests.
On Tuesday, NASA announced that the NIRISS instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope was experiencing issues and as a result out of service. This comes just a month after Webb experienced issues with its attitude control system - should we be concerned?
JWST hasn’t been operational long and the public has yet to see more than a few photos from it, yet we think it may have already made its first discovery, a supernova!
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