James Webb Space Telescope suffers another hitch: Instrument down
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water
Astronomers use the NIRISS to detect exoplanets as well as capture wide-field images to study populations of stars and galaxies. But boffins who were in the middle of using the telescope's instrument or planning to will have to wait until it comes back online. The glitch, unfortunately, will mean precious observation times allotted to astronomers will have to be adjusted.
NIRISS was built by the Canadian Space Agency, and is sensitive enough to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. The first set of images taken by the JWST,by NASA back in July last year, showed it had managed to detect water and hazy clouds on the hot gas giant WASP-96b. Launched on Christmas Day in 2021, the years-late, multi-billion-dollar JWST is the most expensive and powerful space telescope built yet. But the machine has suffered a few glitches less than a year into its
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