With the James Webb telescope, scientists say that they’ll be able to see back to when the first stars and galaxies formed. Since the telescope launched on December 25, astronomers have been holding their breaths. The $10 -billion US telescope finally reached its destination on Monday.
Keith Parrish, the Webb observatory commissioning manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center said “We’re just really excited to announce today that Webb is officially on station at its L2 orbit,… This is just capping off a remarkable 30 days.” The L2 orbit or Lagrange points are a location where there is a pull between two objects like the sun and Earth so that the spacecraft is in a stable or semi-stable orbit.
Chris Willott, an astronomer with National Research Council Canada’s Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre explained “we know that today most galaxies have large black holes in their centres, including our own galaxy,… So they will be looking at how those black holes got started in the very early universe because we know that some of them got very large, very quickly, which is kind of surprising.”
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