The L2 point is the same distance but in the opposite direction, away from the sun. It took the James Webb Space Telescope about a month to reach L2. How many Lagrange points are there?

L2, technically known as the second Earth-sun Lagrange point, is a spot about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth in the direction of Mars, ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that China’s Queqiao satellite was orbiting the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. In fact, Queqiao orbits the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange ...

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. Skip to main content Menu ...

To locate the second Lagrange point, L2, draw a line 150 million km from Sun to Earth and extend it by about one per cent. Normally an object orbiting the Sun farther out than Earth takes longer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is approaching its new home. On January 24, it will arrive at a point in space that scientists call Lagrange point 2, or L2.

What L3 has in common with L1 and L2 is that all of these are unstable Lagrange points, requiring course and attitude adjustments approximately every 23 days. This contrasts with L4 and L5, which ...

After launch, JWST will travel 1.5 million kilometers to Earth's second “Lagrange point” (L2), a spot in space where the gravitational forces of our planet and the sun are roughly equal ...

These are the Lagrange points. (Euler found the first three, and Lagrange discovered the next two.) The first three points — commonly denoted as L1, L2 and L3 — sit along a line connecting the ...

Some of the most productive orbiting telescopes operate at the sun-Earth Lagrange points L1 and L2. Currently, those positions afford us some very incredible science.