[hangs off the arm of a galaxy by my tail]

The one labeled 'one-million' is not real - is it an artist's concept of Kepler 2b, made to commemorate Hubble's 1 millionth observation.

austin_millbarge: "On the scale of the Gulf of Mexico, the glass would have wavelets less than a millimeter high.

Freakier is this level of accuracy isn't new..Optical flats have been made for hundreds of years. (Accurate to a 1/4 wave length of light) Newton did experiments with them that hinted at quantum mechanics way back in the 1700's.

Mixolydian Master: studebaker hoch: James Webb already got chopped.

/too much other stuff going on.



You lie!

JWST Status Page - Up dated monthly. Shows completion and assembly info.

/hot like a pink solar shield

From the wiki

The mission was under review for cancellation by the United States Congress in 2011 after about three-billion USD had been spent,[7] and more than 75 percent of its hardware was either in production or undergoing testing.[8] In November 2011, Congress reversed plans to cancel the JWST and instead capped additional funding to complete the project at $8 billion.[9]

Ohhh Kaayy it would appear it's back on again.

I guess THIS was too cool not to build after all:



James Webb class Solar Federation attack vessel, ca. 2100.

Um, I got descriptions of the photos just fine.