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The James Webb Space Telescope in AR

The James Webb Space Telescope in Augmented Reality

To bring people closer to this engineering marvel — the telescope is three stories tall and as broad as a tennis court — Google Arts & Culture partnered with NASA to bring a 3D model of the telescope to Google Search. You can project the 3D model in Augmented Reality with your phone to explore it up close.

Zoom in to see its 18 ultra-sensitive primary mirror segments, covered with a golf ball’s mass of gold, which optimizes them for reflecting infrared light (the coating is so thin that a human hair is 1,000 times thicker). You can also get up close to the innovative sunshield that keeps the telescope cool, and check out the newly developed instruments that make measurements using the infrared light collected by the telescope’s mirror. 

James Webb Space Telescope available on your phone in AR from Search

Webb will be able to peer through a veil of cosmic dust, helping us see things like these “Pillars of Creation” in even greater clarity and sensitivity.

This image shows the stunning diversity of Europa's surface geology. One of Jupiter’s icy moons, Europa will be studied by the JWST.

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