How Microshutters Are Used as a Mask

How Microshutters Are Used as a Mask

· NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

The microshutters enable Webb to observe multiple targets at once by allowing the light of targeted objects to pass through, and blocking the light from objects astronomers don't wish to study.

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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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