File:Webb Telescope Observing Side and Sun-facing Side (4197-Image).png

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English: A tennis court-sized sunshield protects the Webb telescope from external sources of light and heat in order to be able to detect faint heat signals from very distant objects. This labeled diagram of the Webb telescope illustrates both the observing side and the sun-facing side of the observatory.
Date 31 May 2018 (upload date)
Source Webb Telescope Observing Side and Sun-facing Side
Author and C. Godfrey ()

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag.

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