.@NASAWebb Telescope passes its final tests and prepares for launch! 
This video shows the future Webb’s orbit around the sun, 1 million miles away from us at L2 Lagrange point.pic.twitter.com/v31RNxYmCX
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How cool! Out of interest, what is the orbital period around the L2 point?
Our orbit around the L2 point is quite large - on order of the size of the Moon's orbit around the Earth! A full orbit around the L2 point will take Webb approximately ½ a year. 180 days and that is no coincidence, there are actually dynamic reasons why this is the case!
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The animation has the orbit around the L2 point as much shorter than 180 days.
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