The James Webb Space Telescope sustained a dust-sized micrometeoroid impact to a primary mirror segment. The impact occurred between May 23 and 25. NASA assured that the $10 billion telescope is still ...

Webb’s primary mirror is made up of 18 hexagonal gold-coated beryllium segments that must be aligned to within a tiny fraction of the width of a human hair to achieve a sharp focus. This photo shows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high-speed dust-size micrometeoroid slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 primary mirror segments last month, ...

The brand new James Webb Space Telescope, still in its commissioning phase and getting ready to release its first full-color images next month, has been struck by a small meteoroid. NASA reported on ...

(NEXSTAR) – A micrometeoroid caused “significant uncorrectable damage” to NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Telescope, a new report explains. While experts say the impact was small, it has prompted ...

The space telescope’s mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid, but it's still in great shape to carry out its mission, NASA says. Reading time 2 minutes NASA said today that one of the Webb Space Telescope ...

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A high-speed dust-size micrometeoroid slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 primary mirror segments last month, causing a slight but noticeable effect on the segment's performance, ...