Right in the kisser.
While the size of the space particle, which impacted the observatory in May, was larger than the team had prepared for, the damage is fortunately isolated to just one of the observatory's 18 mirrors, as seen in images included in aBut the team isn't out of the woods yet. Scientists at NASA are still trying to gauge the true impact that micrometeoroid hits like it could have on the observatory's operations.
The 19 impacts so far haven't had much of a detectable effect on operations — except for one. That micrometeoroid "caused significant uncorrectable change in the overall figure of that segment."Bent Mirrors Despite the collisions, the groundbreaking observatory is still exceeding expectations "almost all across the board," NASA notes, with sensitivity of the instruments higher than expected on the ground.
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