# James Webb Space Telescope’s Multifaceted MIRI

James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, with wavelengths that are longer than our eyes see. MIRI covers the wavelength range of 5 to 28.5 microns. Its sensitive detectors will allow it to see the redshifted light of distant galaxies, helping identify the first galaxies in the universe, observe newly forming stars by peering inside dust-shrouded stellar nurseries, and analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets for markers of potential life. MIRI's camera will provide wide-field, broadband imaging that will return breathtaking astrophotography. MIRI was built by the MIRI Consortium (a group that consists of scientists and engineers from European countries), a team from the Jet Propulsion Lab in California, and scientists from several U.S. institutions.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2019
- By: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Genres: Science, Space
- Archive: [NASA Image and Video Library](https://images.nasa.gov/details/MIRI_Feature_Edit)
- Licence or status: [NASA media guidelines](https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/nasa/MIRI_Feature_Edit?play=1)