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by halfdaft 1584 days ago
So true, a good example being NYT: "The Webb astronomers will now spend the next few months wiggling each of those mirror segments back and forth and back and forth until that star becomes one." [1]. Wiggling :( Even a link to the process would have added much, those mirrors are a marvel [2]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/science/webb-telescope-se... [2] https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/in...