NASA is over the moon knowing its James Webb Space Telescope has finally reached its destination.
The telescope performed a slight course correction Monday to place Webb into its final orbital position, where the gravitational pull of the sun and Earth are in balance, called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), NASA announced. Its new home is nearly a million miles away from Earth, and the orbit around L2 will allow the telescope to have “a wide view of the cosmos at any given moment.”
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