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It has been a month since the James Webb Space Telescope launched to space and you can relive its last days on Earth in a stunning new time-lapse video.
The Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket was used to launch the James Webb Space Telescope. Since its liftoff, the space capsule has traveled over one million miles through space, reaching its final destination on Monday.
To make this million-mile journey, he had to prepare here on Earth. The European Space Agency has released a new time-lapse video showing some of the highlights from the time on Earth. The video shows it sailing across the ocean, being folded, unfolded, re-folded and assembled for launch.
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L2, the second Lagrange point, is a very stable point in space opposite the sun, and it is where the long journey through space has taken it. A mid-course correction burn put it into a proper position around L2 on Monday.
The next few weeks will be cooling down before the science instruments are ready to start working.
The telescope appears to be on track, with the science instruments expected to start observing the universe about six months from launch.
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