'L2' Will be the James Webb Space Telescope's Home in Space

When you ask an astronomer about the James Webb Space Telescope's orbit, they'll tell you something that sounds like it came from a science-fiction novel. The Webb won't be orbiting the Earth ?instead we will send it almost a million miles out into space to a place called "L2."


In the case of L2, this happens about 930,000 miles away from the Earth in the exact opposite direction from the sun. The Earth, as we know, orbits the sun once every year. Normally, an object almost a million mile [...]

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