Cooling things down in space is trickier than it might sound, but that is exactly the process the James Webb telescope is going through right now. Getting down to cryogenic temperature is imperative for its infrared imaging systems to work correctly. While the telescope has already started, it will be another few weeks before the process is complete and it's ready to capture its first groundbreaking infrared images of the universe. That might seem like an exceptionally long time to cool something down; however, it's par for the course in space.