NASA successfully deploys complex sunshield on James Webb Spac | Astronomers and scientists

NASA successfully deploys complex sunshield on James Webb Space Telescope

NASA’s next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed its sunshield — a critical feature the observatory will use to keep its instruments extra cold during the course of its mission. The unfurling of the sunshield marks the end of perhaps the most complicated deployment the observatory must pull off in order to properly function while in space.