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on the observatory's massive golden mirror even before normal science observations had begun.
"For the most part, we've been getting about one to two a month that we can actually detect," Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager for JWST at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, told Space.com of the impacts."At this point, it's really been a very minor thing."
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