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Roman telescope's 300-megapixel camera activated; test image captures its first starlight

SpaceTelescope says the Wide Field Instrument is an infrared camera designed to explore wide swaths of the cosmos. Its first starlight image was taken to assess performance.

1 Source, 17d ago, first seen 17d ago

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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Inside IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years away

SpaceTelescope shares a view of the region in Perseus, where cold clouds of molecular hydrogen collapse to form new stars.

1 Source, 29d ago, first seen 29d ago