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Six of the 18 James Webb Space Telescope mirror segments are being prepped to move into the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to eventually experience temperatures dipping to a chilling -414 degrees Fahrenheit to ensure they can withstand the extreme space environments. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures. Marshall's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility is the world's largest X-ray telescope test facility and a unique, cryogenic, clean room optical test location.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by James Webb Space Telescope at https://flickr.com/photos/50785054@N03/4813167376. It was reviewed on 7 June 2023 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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