There's been a lot of breath-holding since the James Web SpacTelescop(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 #NASAWebb 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.
Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jwst-canadians-1.6319289
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