The Webb Space Telescope is now at its final home in space nearly 1 million miles from Earth.
James Webb Space Telescope: The engineering behind a 'first light machine' that is not allowed to failNow at L2, Webb will spend the next few weeks cooling down before spending a period of about five months preparing its science instruments to start working.
Webb's science instruments are expected to start observing the cosmos about six months from launch and, with a successful arrival yesterday, the telescope appears to be right on track.
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