NASA?s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope reaches final orbit in space

Now, the observatory will live in perpetuity at a distance of roughly 1 million miles from the Earth, giving the vehicle a front-row view of the most ancient stars and galaxies of the Universe.Launched on Christmas Day, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, has had a wild ride to its destination. It was the last of three course correction burns that JWST has done, slowing the spacecraft down enough to put it into a very precise orbit in space.JWST is now orbiting around an invisible point in space known as an Earth-Sun Lagrange point. JWST is orbiting around one Lagrangian point located on the far side of the Earth further from the Sun, called L2. By putting the telescope nearly 1 million miles away from our planet, NASA is guaranteeing that the infrared light coming from the Earth and the Moon will not interfere or heat up the telescope.L2 is also great from a power standpoint because one side of JWST will always be facing the Sun. On that heated side, the telescope has a solar panel that is constantly gathering sunlight for power.