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MIRI Overview

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Overview of the MIRI. The instrument is attached to the JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) by the triangular structure at the left. Click on a subsystem to learn more about it.

In addition to the huge discovery potential due to the hundred times advance in sensitivity with the MIRI over any previous telescope/instrument combinations, the instrument plays key roles in the defining JWST science program:

2.) Assembly of galaxies: history of star formation, growth of black holes, preduction of heavy elements

Check here for a more detailed description of the science, or here for one of the instrument (both in pdf).