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Make your own “James Webb Space Pumpkin” this Halloween. This way

October 24, 2022
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The James Webb Space Telescope was launched in December 2021.

As Halloween is just around the corner, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) released James Webb Space Telescope pumpkin carving stencils so people can bring a little cosmic mystery to their spooky decorations this year. Offered for free with instructions, Three Stencils offers three levels of difficulty for those wanting to carve their own pumpkins with a touch of outer space.

CSA wrote on Twitter, “Halloween is about to come! Want to add a touch of outer space to your Halloween decor? Download our free Webb Telescope Pumpkin Carving Stencils.”

Easiest Stencil, with its diamond-shaped sun shield and large primary mirror, provides a guide to outlining the Webb telescope, according to the official website. The second stencil recreates Webb’s already iconic hexagonal segmented primary mirror. The third and most difficult stencil – the spider web – provides a guide to adding spider webs to a web mirror outline.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in December 2021. It is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Telescopes are specially tuned to look at the sky in the infrared – that’s light at wavelengths longer than can be sensed by our eyes.

JWST is orbiting the Sun at a distance of one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, in a region of space called the second Lagrange point. Astronomers say the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope could make discoveries unimaginable. Distant colliding galaxies, gas-giant exoplanets and dying star systems were the first astronomical subjects captured by the multibillion-dollar observatory.

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