Why Webb's unassuming secondary mirror makes it a telescope

Why Webb's unassuming secondary mirror makes it a telescope

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The James Webb telescope has a two-story concave mirror that looks like a golden honeycomb dish.

On Wednesday, that’s not what NASA opened.

What it did deploy was a much smaller mirror — a round convex piece only 2.4 feet in diameter, about that of a car tire. But the Webb team cautions against underestimating its...

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