#asknasa if web is not going to orbit around the earth, it is going to hang in the space 1 millions miles away? Or will it be traveling #UnfoldTheUniversehttps://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKdEDZAVrGW …
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It will orbit around a point in space called the second Lagrange point, which has special gravitational properties. It is a million miles from Earth. And then it will also be orbiting the Sun in line with the Earth. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html …
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