The James Webb Space Telescope at L2

The James Webb Space Telescope's orbit around the Sun🛰️ L2 is one of the 5 Sun-Earth Lagrange points, located 1.5 million km away from Earth. Lagrange points are the points where the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them. Follow us: @astro.voyagers Credit: GSFC _______________________ #astronomy #nightsky #space #telescope #astrophotography #stars #universe #milkyway #cosmos #planetarium #science @astro.voyage

"...one of the wonderful challenges about astronomy is that we have to imagine something so we can go look for it. But nature has a way of being even more creative than we are; so we have always been surprised by what we see in the sky. That’s why building a telescope has always been interesting. Every time we build a better one, we see something we never imagined was out there." - Dr. John Mather Learn more about the science goals of the James Webb Space Telescope with Dr. Amber Straughn and Dr