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To complete the first stage of alignment, the team moved the primary mirror segments to arrange the dots of starlight into a hexagonal image array

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Description	English: To complete the first stage of alignment, the team moved the primary mirror segments to arrange the dots of starlight into a hexagonal image array. Each dot of starlight is labeled with the corresponding mirror segment that captured it.
Date	17 February 2022, 05:20:21
Source	https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/18/webb-team-brings-18-dots-of-starlight-into-hexagonal-formation/
Author	NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale

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