You ’re looking at the James Webb Space Telescope as it ’s take down into NASA ’s Goddard Thermal Vacuum Chamber . Inside the dreary cavern , it is subjected to the same unfriendly environment as it will have in space .
How do they do that ? Well , the 40 - foot - improbable , 27 - infantry - diameter cylindrical chamber is empty of tune using vacuum pumps , then uses fluid atomic number 7 and even cold liquid He to drop the temperature . It gets down to -387 degrees Fahrenheit , or 40 point Kelvin . Which is pretty cold !
Fortunately , the James Webb Space Telescope , 116 daylight after it was first placed into the bedroom , is now out . And , mercifully , still working . [ NASA ]

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