James Webb Space Telescope in Orbit (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope in Orbit

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This is an artist's rendition of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Sun-Earth system. The L2 point is approximately 1.5 million kilometers (approximately 930,000 miles) from Earth, outside the orbit of the Moon. The region about L2 is a gravitational saddle point, where spacecraft may remain at roughly constant distance from the Earth throughout the year by small station-keeping maneuvers. Click image to enlarge.

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