JWST's is fully deployed! How are you celebrating? The telescope still has many adventures to come before we get the first images back, but with deployment behind us, we can all take a massive sigh of relief. JWST has another two weeks left on its journey to its final destination, and it will be another five months of calibration and alignment before we get the first pretty pictures. You can learn more here: https://www.planetary.org/articles/jwst-first-images (Animation: NASA/SkyWorks Digital/N

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