With the James Webb Space Telescope at its final destination in orbit around the sun, now the telescope has to go through a series of alignment processes to get it ready for collecting science data.

Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Faculty of Arts and ...

With the exciting process of deployment complete, the James Webb Space Telescope team is now embarking on their next challenge: Aligning the telescope’s mirror segments. This slow, months-long process ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope doesn’t seem so giant in the renderings, until you see how the mirrors are made. The telescope will require seven total mirrors each 27 feet (8.4 meters) in diameter for a ...