July 13, 2022

To know how the James Webb Space Telescope works, it helps to understand these 5 amazing “parking spaces of space”


The Lagrange Points are places where the forces acting on an object are perfectly balanced so that its orbit does not change. The James Webb Space Telescope will be parked near the Earth’s L2 point. There are thousands of asteroids near Jupiter’s Lagrange points which are called the “trojans”.

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