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22 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Ahead of our launch, we asked you to show us what you believe #NASAWebb will reveal through art. Here are just some of submissions we received for our #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge! Keep them coming! Special thanks to all of our participants. More info: go.nasa.gov/unfoldtheunive…
Our gallery of #UnfoldTheUniverse submissions: webb.nasa.gov/content/featur…

Credits: @NASAGoddard/ Madison Dean, Lead Producer and Editor

Host: @kelliegerardi with Delta V.
Artists featured in this video:
Mason Cortez
Sreshta Velamuri
Jon Young
Galina Ivanova
Mashal
Collin Cochran
Thessaly Dunn
Jaden Berkley
Noelle Lui
Siddharth Sajith Nair
Shelina Swastika Kumar
Elena Schwer
Mansi Ashtamkar
Reyansh Sunwar
Jedidiah Dore
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Artist featured in this video (cont):
Natasha Mahabir-Persad
Sanjeet Patel
Amy Limon
Greta Slocum
Ahmad Jabakenji
Lanchen Mihalic
Amelia Cochran
Redwan Alrayes
Mihaela Stretea and Nadia
Gourilakshmi Nambiar
Gabriel Enache
Anastasia Wittler

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Testing is the spacecraft equivalent of @NASA_Astronauts training. But how does a space telescope like #NASAWebb “train” for its launch journey?

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1) Let’s start with liftoff. A rocket launch is 100 times more intense and 4 times louder than a rock concert! 🎸

To simulate that level of extreme noise, Webb’s complete structure was recently blasted with powerful sound waves. 🔊
2) #NASAWebb was also carefully folded into its launch position, placed onto a shaker table, and vibrated from 5 to 100 times per second to match the speeds of its launch vehicle, an @arianespace Ariane 5 rocket. 🚀

Read our latest feature: go.nasa.gov/2SvxSX4
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