Using NASA’s “Webb cams,” Internet viewers can watch the continuous progress on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Privacy is dead.
We all know that, but now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) does, too. Two webcams (or as NASA cleverly calls them, “Webb cams”) watch the clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center in Baltimore, where the telescope’s bits and pieces are tested. The images update every minute, and you can expect action from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday. Things slow down on the weekends, as the Webb and its associated engineers have to run errands and go to soccer games just like everybody else. You can check out all the action at http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/webcam.html.
And if the clean room is a little dead, you can watch some archived Webb footage — a time-lapse of the Mid-Infrared Instrument getting its installation on.
