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“The two wings of Webb’s primary mirror had been folded to fit inside the nose cone of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket prior to launch. After more than a week of other critical spacecraft deployments, the Webb team began remotely unfolding the hexagonal segments of the primary mirror, the largest ever launched into space,” NASA said in a news release.
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The weather cooperated, allowing NASA to offer a livestream of the eclipse courtesy of the Theo Boris and Christian Lockwood of the JM Pasachoff Antarctic Expedition.
LaunchDelighting lovers of astronomy everywhere, NASA today released the first public photo taken by its Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, which is mounted on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite launched earlier this year.
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