There’s been a lot of breath-holding since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Dec. 25, but now astronomers can exhale: The $10-billion US telescope safely reached its destination Monday afternoon.
🏠 Home, home on Lagrange! We successfully completed our burn to start <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/NASAWebb?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#NASAWebb</a> on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. It will orbit the Sun, in line with Earth, as it orbits L2. <a href=”https://t.co/bsIU3vccAj”>https://t.co/bsIU3vccAj</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnfoldTheUniverse?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#UnfoldTheUniverse</a> <a href=”https://t.co/WDhuANEP5h”>pic.twitter.com/WDhuANEP5h</a>
—@NASAWebb
“We’re just really excited to announce today that Webb is officially on station at it’s L2 orbit,” Keith Parrish, Webb observatory