James Webb Space Telescope instruments go into operation

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The James Webb Space Telescope, located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, has completed the alignment phase of its science instruments, which are now operational, NASA announced.

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Its four powerful instruments, three image processors and a spectrometer, were successfully aligned with the main mirror

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whose deployment was completed in early January, two weeks after liftoff of the James Webb Telescope

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Each instrument has reached “operational temperature” and is ready for use, NASA said in a statement.

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Pending the first science observations (expected in the northern summer), it was confirmed that the instruments are capable of “capturing sharp, well-oriented images”

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such as, for example, of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy, a satellite of the Milky Way, which was taken by the Mirim instrument.

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