The recently launched marvel of engineering, modern science, and international cooperation has been taking beautiful pictures of our universe with the help of JavaScript.

Aadarsh Kannan

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The JWST has a bunch of pre-written scripts for doing specific tasks, and scientists on the ground can tell it to run those tasks. When they do, those JavaScripts will be interpreted by a program called the script processor. This knowledge base also contains a few more details on the telescope’s 68 GB SSD, saying that it can hold somewhere between 58.8 and 65 gigabytes of actual scientific data.

The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently

<p>They should have used typescript though haha</p>
