The James Webb Telescope is in orbit around the sun. And is currently looking back farther than ever. But the James Webb team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) didn’t think they would see the Telescope take a selfie of itself.
The telescope has a camera called NIRCam which will show us the universe almost 13.5 billion years ago, and was aiming for its target which was a star group that was visible in its range. It took 18 black and white photos of the star group but when it snapped a photo of one of the stars, the light reflected and the telescope took a selfie.
This was the first mistake selfie taken in space. Many astronauts have taken selfies in space. The first one being Buzz Aldrin on Gemini 12. Mars rovers and Satellites also take selfies too, but are ordered to do so.
So who knows how many mistaken selfies are going to be taken in the future?
