The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its final destination

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After a month of travelling through space, the James Webb Space Telescope has reached its parking spot 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, but it isn’t ready to start studying the universe just yet

) has arrived at its new home. On 24 January, the spacecraft fired its thrusters for about 5 minutes to place it into its final orbit, and now it is ready to calibrate its mirrors and scientific instruments before peering out into the universe.

The telescope is at a gravitationally stable spot called a Lagrange point, where all the forces on the spacecraft balance out to keep it in place, orbiting the sun along with Earth. This particular Lagrange point, called L2, is about 1.5 million kilometres away from the planet in the direction opposite to the sun.

Aside from the fact that parking near a Lagrange point will save fuel, L2 is a particularly good spot for observing the sky without worrying about heat or light from the sun, Earth or the moon. JWST faces away from all of those objects, with itsThe telescope requires extreme cold to function, which the sunshield will also provide.

 

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I hope it breaks

So far and yet so close to my ❤️ Heart, So fern und doch so nah an meinem ❤️Herzen !

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Patience! Getting it ready.

Why

Hope the bloody thing works after all that. Not exactly call-out territory.

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five days till first light

JWST ultra deep field when?

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