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The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a historic milestone by capturing the first direct image of an exoplanet.
THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...
NASA has upped the odds of a 200ft “city killer” asteroid smashing into the Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was once feared to be on a collision course with Earth, with the chance ...
On Christmas Day, 2021, a successor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb), was launched. Unlike Hubble, Webb orbits the Sun about 1.5 million km beyond Earth at L2, providing an ...
On Monday, JWST settled into its final orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2. This is a gravitationally stable point where the Sun and Earth’s gravity cancel each other out.
Although JWST launched in late 2021, it took the space observatory 29 days to reach its home orbiting the L2 Lagrange point about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth, and an ...
After decades of planning, the James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day 2021. Here are some of the most important images it has sent us so far.
Just over a year ago, when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope switched on, dominating headlines of even mainstream media, it felt like the start of a new era. Booted up with infrared sensors and ...
Over the next few days, JWST will release roughly 50 terabytes of data—more than 400 times Hubble’s weekly transmission—to the public.
Since launch there have been four impacts on the observatory, which is about what you’d expect given its size, the environment — JWST is at the gravitationally stable Earth-Sun L2 point, about ...
Three Lagrange points are unstable and lie along that line (L1, L2, and L3), and two are stable (L4 and L5) and symmetric, above and below that line as points of an equilateral triangle.
Webb is set to arrive at its new home on Monday: A location almost one million miles away called L2, or the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.