Image of James Webb snapped by the Gaia observatory - Digital Trends

3/19/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 1 month ago
by Georgina Torbet
by Georgina Torbet
The Gaia observatory was recently able to snap a picture of the James Webb observatory in its orbit at L2.
The James Webb Space Telescope doesn’t orbit the Earth as the Hubble Space Telescope does. Instead, it orbits the sun in a position called the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, where it can rem… [+2085 chars]
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