James Webb Space Telescope shows how sharp its images are and hints at exciting scientific possibilities

A couple of weeks ago, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope's optics are fully aligned and focused, meaning that the space telescope is ready for instrument commissioning. Yesterday, NASA revealed a new image from its coldest instrument, the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI. MIRI has a camera and spectrograph, and it detects light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. MIRI operates over a wavelength range of 5 to 28 microns. NASA writes, 'Its sensitive detecto...