Because of a calibration update for one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s main cameras, research using the first few weeks of data from the observatory may be flawed
Space
15 August 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope in a clean room at at NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland NASA/Desiree Stover
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is performing better than expected, and that might be a problem for some of the early results. An update to our understanding of how one of its cameras is working may mean that many galaxies spotted in the early data are not as distant as they seem.
When JWST sends data back to Earth, it doesn’t come as complete images. Astronomers have to process …
