After a long hard work of 25 years, James Webb Space Telescope was finally launched. A 10 billion dollar space telescope is working in its full swing to capture the first image of the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A* (pronounce A star), which makes it even more exciting.
when is Webb going to capture its first image of the cosmos? What is the first thing it will focus on?
In the first few months, the alignment of mirror segments will begin. It will possibly take 60 to 90 days after launch for the primary mirror segments to align to work correctly as a single optical surface.
Then, by the end of the second month, the Webb telescope will be able to take blurred and casual images, possibly of some bright stars, due to lack of optimization. So the next few months will go into calibrating and optimizing its cameras and other instruments. After that, Jems Webb will capture thousands of the earliest galaxies formed within a billion years of the big bang, where the first stars and galaxies emerged. The James Webb Space Telescope can watch host stars and block the starlight while passing in front of them. This system is thought to comprise seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting a single red dwarf tar and is one of the prime targets of Webb.
Apart from studying alien worlds, Webb will undertake extensive studies about our solar system. For example, Webb will look at 59 trans-Neptunian objects, which are the icy bodies lying beyond the orbit of Neptune. Webb has been designed to have an overall mission lifetime of at least five and a half years.
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