The Hames Webb Space Telescope Has Landed

Figuratvely speaking, that is. From Space.com:

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination today (Jan. 24). The most powerful observatory ever to launch to space, the James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Dec. 25, 2021 to explore the cosmos and our universe’s earliest milestones.

Since its successful takeoff, the $10 billion telescope has been busy deploying its various systems and structures and traveling over 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) to its new home: L2, the second sun-Earth Lagrange point, which it will orbit. Lagrange points are gravitationally stable points in space.

"Gravitationally stable" in this case means that the earth's gravity and the sun's gravity cncel each other out -- the telescope will stay put.

THe Webb teescope is designed to investigaete the first light in the unives=iverse. (It took a while aftetr the Big Bng for the first stars to form and start emitting light, so that's not quite the beginning -- but it's as close as we're likely to get.)

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