Webb Telescope OTE (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Webb Telescope OTE

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The Optical Telescope Element is the eye of the James Webb Space Telescope. The OTE gathers as much light as possible coming from space and provides it to the science instruments, labeled in this diagram.

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