Gold-coated Engineering Design Unit (EDU) Primary Mirror Segment

This is a photo of one of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments coated with gold by Quantum Coating Incorporated. It's NOT a flight segment, it's the engineering design unit. The photo was taken at BATC by Drew Noel.

 

Credit: Photo by Drew Noel

 

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