A million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived in it's parking spot at Lagrange Point #2, the perfect place to search the heavens for faint light from the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. This mix tells the story of the Webb observatory as it seeks to "Unfold the Universe."
The telescope's primary mirror, the largest mirror ever flown into space, is too wide to fit into the launch rocket in one piece. So it is segmented into 18 hinged, hexagonal pieces on so it can fold up for launch and unfold in space.
That unfolding is one of the themes of this mix and can be seen in track titles like "Tentative Unfolding", "Watching It Unfold" and "Unfold pt. 2." The story of the Webb telescope is told in other tracks such as "Lagrange Point" "Gathering the Starglow" "Looking Into the Past" and "The Light Beyond."
