Description
The Webb Telescope Snowflake template is based on the James Webb Space Telescope. It has a giant mirror consisting of 18 smaller hexagon-shaped mirrors.
Supplies you’ll need:
- Paper: 20lb White Paper
- Scissors: Precision Scissors
This is a downloadable PDF that you can print, fold, and cut at your leisure. You will get a unique link to the PDF after you complete your purchase. Be sure to download and save the printable snowflake template. You are free to print this template as much as you want for your personal use. If your first attempt at cutting doesn’t turn out as you hoped, you can print another copy and try again. Flake it till you make it!
Watch the video to see how to make a Webb Telescope Paper Snowflake.
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful telescope in the world. OK, it’s not in the world, it’s a million miles away from Earth. It is so big that it had to fold origami-style to fit inside the rocket to launch. Keep watching as I make an origami telescope modeled after the Webb.
Space Telescopes see by using mirrors to reflect and focus light from distant stars. The bigger the mirror, the more it can collect and further it can see. Instead of sending one giant mirror into space, the Webb telescope has 18 smaller hexagon shaped mirrors that allow the telescope to fold. When unfolded in space, the hexagon mirrors look like a giant snowflake.
The mirrors on the Webb telescope have a layer of gold to help them reflect infrared light. This type of light is not visible to our eyes. Instead, we feel it as heat. By observing infrared light, Webb will be able to see objects that are so far away that the expansion of the universe has made their light shift from visible to infrared. It will also be able to see through dust in our universe.
Because the telescope is seeing infrared light, it is super sensitive to any heat. That’s why its orbit around the sun is a million miles away from Earth. We don’t have any of that Earth and Moon heat to interfere our deep space photos. The Webb telescope also has a massive, multi-layer sunshield that keeps the golden hexagons in an icy shadow.
Find out more about the JWST at https://webb.nasa.gov
Learn how to use a Moflakes Template on the How-To Page
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