Just seen the first image released by NASA on the test star they used for calibrating the mirrors and the images accuracy.
They used the star to get pin point precision. The image is astounding. Even looking at it through a lossy JPEG image on the internet throws up amazing details...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60771210
While the world recoils with anger to the many conflicts going on around the world......we as human beings still search out life in the Cosmos.....this scope is a game changer.....this cost as much as the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.....
For me its a distraction from the relentless bad news stories that seem to be all over the place....