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OK, Internet. Are you ready for our gallery "The Beauty of the @NASAWebb @ESA_Webb MIRI Instrument Filter wheel"? Because it *is* beautiful, and @mpi_astro is quite proud of contributing to that amazing space telescope! Let's start with the classic face-on look. 1/ 
Also available in the Roy Lichtenstein (?) version. (OK, this is actually the 3D design by @mpi_astro and @ZEISS_Group, taken from this 2005 press release. We've been working for a long time on this!)
With that amount of elegance and beauty, you won't be surprised to learn that the MIRI filter wheel has been doing some modelling gigs. Here it is as one of the faces of the IAU's strategic plan 2020-2030. 3/
