James Webb has finished his composition and is now able to take high quality photographs.

After a month of travel James Webb Space Telescope reached its destination at the Lagrange point 2 on 24 January. Since then he has been preparing your mirrors and your instrumentsto get started as soon as possible. The first step was mirror alignment who will be in charge of sending light to each of their instruments so they can take pictures. It was a very delicate process, so it was carefully carried out in several stages, which have just been successfully completed, as explained by NASA.

In fact, the US space agency released an image showing photos of each of these instruments. The light reached them perfectly, so they were able to take very clear pictures. This is not the first time James Webb has done something like this, he has already sent his first clear photograph of a star, but for the first time all of his instruments were able to capture many of the stars belonging to Magellanic cloud.

Does this mean that James Webb is ready to go? The truth is, no. And it is that, although all his instruments have already been able to take picturess, they will still need to be adjusted for optimal performance. It is expected that this process will continue for about two more months, so that by the summer in the northern hemisphere, this space telescope will finally be able to start working on its many missions.

“Rise” by James Webb

Given its large size, the James Webb Space Telescope was designed to be sent into space. wrinkled. Later, the science team will facilitate its deployment during the trip. Very little by little it opened up like a flower, and its honeycomb-shaped mirrors, and its solar panels, and the rest of its elements were placed in their places. Or almost instead.

It arrived at its destination fully unfolded. However, it is still necessary to align these newly exposed mirrors to ensure that when catch the lightthey send it appropriately to each of James Webb’s instruments.

It was a long process that had just ended with one last test, which consisted of pointing the telescope at Large Magellanic Cloudin which they concentrate hundreds of thousands of stars on all sensors of your device. Thus, each of them managed to perpetuate a small package, with great sharpness. In the image released by NASA, photographs taken by NIRCam, NIRISS, MIRI and NIRSpec. The latter is a spectrograph, not a thermal imager. However, you can take pictures to check the calibration.

The future of space telescope instruments

James Webb ahead two months of calibration of your instruments. Then you can get to work, for which you already have a good waiting list. And this is what many projects are waiting to get more data from this space telescope.

For example, the discoverers of what appears to be the most distant galaxy discovered to date are counting on you to use your instruments to confirm that they have indeed broken the record. It is also expected to give us interesting information about the most distant star ever discovered.

Usually, James Webb he will use his instruments and his telescopes to see further than ever before to the human eye. His preparation is especially thorough, but certainly worth the wait.