Sentences with phrase «single giant mirror»
To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.
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Three of the giant new telescopes, the two 10 - meter Kecks and the Hobby - Eberly, skirted some of the weight problems associated with casting a mirror from a single piece of glass.
Angel is already casting the seven 8.4 - meter mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope which together will act as a single 24.5 - meter mirror.
Challenge in hand, a few bold engineers dared to draw up the first sketches of a radical new approach to gathering light: tile together smaller hexagons, and control them so finely that they would act as a single, giant mirror.