NASA hides technology on telescopes looking backwards

NASA deliberately blurred a part of the structure of the James Webb Space Telescope in the video about this telescope.

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) blurs a section on the James Webb Space Telescope because it is the exclusive structure of an anonymous partner company, according to Business Insider.

Part of the structure of the James Webb Space Telescope is blurred (the circle is red).(Photo: NASA).

NASA announced the completion of the huge gold mirror surface of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) worth $ 8.7 billion on November 2. To celebrate this special day, NASA's Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, released a video on Youtube about revolutionary technologies in making telescopes, including profiles. Lightweight structure and modern sensors and many other things.

"The efforts of thousands of people across the United States, Canada and Europe in nearly two decades have finally reached this milestone. Before building JWST, we have to create and complete 10 jobs. technology has never existed , " NASA said.

However, in the video, part of JWST's image is obscured so that viewers cannot see it clearly.

"This is a proprietary technology. The US government must respect the intellectual property rights of industrial partners. The blurred image is a secondary mirror support structure of the telescope, including details. On the mirror, the secondary mirror functions to receive light from the primary mirror for optical adjustment, " said NASA Chandler, NASA's representative of the JWST project, told Business Insider.

JWST is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope . JWST's main mirror surface has a diameter of 6.5m, including 19 smaller hexagonal mirrors made from gold-plated beryllium (Be) material. The gold-plated layer helps to increase the level of infrared light reflection of the main mirror.

Scientists describe JWST as an "infrared time super machine" , which helps look back 13.5 billion years to observe the first stars and galaxies formed in the darkness of the early universe. NASA plans to launch JWST with the Ariane 5 rocket in Guiana, a French province in South America, in October 2018.