The American space agency, NASA, revealed that its James Webb telescope, which is classified as the “most powerful telescope in the world”, suffered an accident in space.
Small meteorites that were flying at a very high speed collided with the telescope, between May 23 and 25, according to a statement from NASA issued on Wednesday.
One of the small pieces hit the telescope’s primary mirror, which “had a detectable effect on the data, but not enough to affect the telescope’s overall performance.”
“NASA” added in its statement that the James Webb Telescope team conducted a preliminary analysis of the accident, and found that it is still operating at a level that “exceeds all of its mission requirements.”
The James Webb Telescope has the ability to adjust the positions of the mirror, in order to correct and reduce the results of such effects, and its engineers made the first of several modifications to compensate for the damage to the affected sector, and “Naya” formed a team of engineers to consider ways to mitigate the effects of this range impact in the future.
Astronomers around the world are pinning great hopes on NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which is supposed to give insight into the first stars and galaxies that ever formed, and into the atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets, as an alternative to Earth.
“The most powerful telescope in the world” is being hit by meteorites… and “NASA” issues a statement
