NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: The ultimate guide
It took 30 days for the James Webb Space Telescope to travel nearly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) to its permanent home:
The telescope arrived at L2, the second sun-Earth Lagrange point on Jan. 24, 2022
It has been a popular spot for several other space telescopes, including the Herschel Space Telescope and the Planck Space Observatory.
On June 17 NASA announced that Webb was about halfway through its instrument checks. "As of today, 7 out of Webb’s 17 instrument modes are ready for science,"
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is also expected to take amazing photos of celestial objects like its predecessor
The James Webb Space Telescope is the product of an impressive international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency
An impressive HD video captured the observatory flying away from the Ariane 5 rocket that carried it into space