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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in trouble!
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in trouble!

[ad_1] NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is experiencing issues with its MIRI instrument. Here’s what NASA said. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided us with numerous stunning images despite a short duration of service. The space telescope was launched on December 25 last year. Although the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in service for only 2 months, the telescope has produced stunning images of various celestial objects such as a Tarantula Nebula, globular star cluster, Neptune's rings and more, the telescope has now run into trouble.According to NASA, the Mid-Infrared Instrument aboard the JWST is not functioning optimally due to an issue with one of its four observing modes. NASA said in a...