The Webb Space Telescope Summer

The James Webb Space Telescope survived May meteorite damage and delivered a sweet interstellar miracle in July.

An addition to our #JWSTArt and #UnfoldTheUniverse social media campaigns by Telus Spark, a science center in Calgary, Canada. They created this ice cream treat in tribute to Webb. July 18, 2022. (photo: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope)

“This tribute cone is topped with a yellow sugar cookie representing the telescope’s primary mirror consisting of hexagonal segments made of gold-plated beryllium (6 times larger than Hubble’s main mirror),” said the Telus Spark Science Center in Calgary, Canada, of an ice cream confection they…