The wispy, spiral galaxy NGC 6902 glows faintly in deep space in this "first-light" image from the European Southern Observatory's new SPECULOOS Southern Observatory, an array of four telescopes in Chile’s Atacama desert. Although SPECULOOS was built to search for exoplanets around dim stars in our galactic neighborhood, one of its telescopes honed in on this spiral galaxy for its first observation. NGC 6902 is located about 120 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. "If this is what Ganymede can produce as its first observation of something it wasn’t even designed to image, we have a lot to look forward to," ESO officials said in a statement. — Hanneke Weitering
I can't wait until the James Webb telescope is finally launched. I can't even imagine the pictures we'll get from that telescope. The telescope will be 100 times more sensitive than Hubble, and have a mirror 7 times bigger.
That thing has had so many problems over the development years I wonder if it'll ever really live up to the hype. It'll be great though if it does.
Yeah, they keep finding flaws they have to fix. But better here on Earth than after it launches. I think that the whole fiasco with the Hubble mirror being out of focus taught them a valuable lessen, and they definitely don't want another public relations nightmare like that. Especially since this telescope was so much more expensive to build.
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