A holiday delivery from NASA Johnson (Dec 14th, 2015) of JWST's Aft Optics Subsystem.
The AOS is at the center of JWST's primary mirror; light is sent there by the secondary mirror. In the AOS is JWST's tertiary mirror. From there light is sent via pick-off mirrors to our instruments.
Credit: DJ Emmanuel
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