Meanwhile, 1.5 million km from Earth: Things are starting to come into focus for the JWST. The new space telescope's primary mirror has eighteen segments that all need to work together as one giant mirror so we can have the epic space images we crave. So far, the telescope has completed three out of seven phases of its mirror alignment. The progress really shows in this before-and-after shot from JWST's NIRCam. Each fuzzy blob in the starting image is the same star reflecting off a different mir