NASA'S NEW SPACE TELESCOPE SEES 1ST STARLIGHT, TAKES SELFIE

NASA’s new space telescope has captured its first starlight and even taken a selfie of its giant, gold mirror.

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All 18 segments of the primary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope seem to be working properly 1 1/2 months into the mission, officials said.

The telescope’s first target was a bright star 258 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

“That was just a real wow moment,” said Marshall Perrin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Over the next few months, the hexagonal mirror segments — each the size of a coffee table — will be aligned and focused as one, allowing science observations to begin by the end of June.