James Webb Space Telescope is now fully deployed! But there's still a long way to go.

Now witness the observational power of this fully deployed and not-quite-yet operational space telescope.

— Emperor Palpatine, kinda

On Saturday morning, January 8, 2022, the eyes of James Webb Space Telescope became fully opened, and the massive observatory now ready to begin its long testing phase to focus its individual 18 hexagonal mirror segments into a single, monolithic vision of the Universe.