Coming Into Focus

[krpalmer]

While I have been trying to look up “space news” every so often to keep up on a few ongoing things in my mind, an announcement the eighteen hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope had aligned on their target star surprised me when I first saw it in my regular newspaper. I went looking for more information on the sites I know to check, and now I noticed distant galaxies were beginning to appear in the test image too. It will be a few more months before the telescope completes its checkouts, but I suppose that’s something to try and keep an eye on along with the big and the small (regardless of how I’ve also just seen the big, as ever, attract a certain kind of “you can’t do anything right, can you?” criticism).