The James Webb Space Telescope is not only a outstanding feat of engineering; it’s a phenomenal one too. Take its 18 hexagonal mirrors produced from gold-plated beryllium, which impressed YouTube’s Cellar Nerd to create a replica to hold on their wall as a bit of useful artwork, accented with precise photographs captured by the telescope.

The first captured photographs arrived simply final week, however the Webb Space Telescope itself has really been in improvement way back to 1996, with a significant redesign in 2005, and development lastly being accomplished in 2016. The telescope’s mirror array measures 21-feet throughout, making its light-collecting space about six instances as massive as what the Hubble Space Telescope used, permitting the Webb to picture objects which are even older and farther away. It will assist give us extra insights into the origins of our universe, however the Cellar Nerd’s replica is lots much less bold. It simply appears to be like actually cool, and prices lots lower than $10 billion to construct.

Instead of turning to firms like Northrop Grumman, the Cellar Nerd sourced their gold-tinted mirrors from Amazon, which meant having to attend till they really arrived to get correct measurements to design and assemble a body to mount them to. The body was mocked up in 3D in Autodesk’s Fusion 360, however as an alternative of making all of the elements utilizing a 3D printer, the Cellar Nerd as an alternative reached for his or her trusty jigsaw and a slab of plywood.

To make the mirror value looking at even for individuals who aren’t useless, the Cellar Nerd changed the sensors within the middle of the Webb Space Telescope’s mirror array with a salvaged 15.6-inch laptop computer display linked to a Raspberry Pi 2 that holds precise photographs captured by the true telescope and scales them to suit the seen a part of the display as a part of a passive slideshow. Eventually, the Cellar Nerd plans to replace the mirror to mechanically retrieve new photographs from the Webb Space Telescope as they’re shared on-line, so as to add to an ever-growing slideshow.