James Webb Space Telescope's "Super-eye" arrives - Video

The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec instrument arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Sep. 20, 2013. 

The Near-Infared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), provided by the European Space Agency and built by EADS/Astrium, will be the first multi-object spectrograph flown in space. 

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

A new NASA video gives viewers an up close view of the arrival of the James Webb Space Telescope's "Super-eye."

The Webb telescope's Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) instrument arrived by truck at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Sept. 20, 2013, and NASA videographers documented it for everyone.

After its trans-Atlantic flight to Thurgood Marshall BWI airport, Baltimore, Md., on a specialized Russian transport plane from Germany, it was moved into the world's largest clean room for further testing.

The instrument, built at the EADS ASTRIUM facility in Munich, Germany, is often referred to as the Webb telescope's "Super-eye."

NIRSpec is Webb's instrument that will use infrared light to analyze the physical properties and chemical composition of distant galaxies, stars and planets.