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by magicalhippo 336 days ago
> The JWST has "17 different modes" (yeah, I wish I knew what that meant exactly)

It's explained in the user documentation[1]. You did read the documentation right?

For example[2]:

JWST Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) has 5 observing modes: imaging, coronagraphy, grism wide field slitless spectroscopy, time-series imaging, and grism time series.

With further details for each in subsections.

[1]: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/

[2]: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera/nircam...

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Peak comment right here.