In the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland, a team of engineers has unveiled the vast gold-covered primary mirror of the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). As the telescope was painstakingly pieced together, the all-important mirror segments were covered in a protective black sheaths to guard against scratches and an accumulation of dust.
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