- At 5 Lagrangian points (L1-L5) the pull of the Sun, Earth, and Moon balance. Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813) discovered them. L2 is 1.5 million km farther from the Sun than Earth and 4 X farther from Earth than the Moon. It will be home to the James Webb Space Telescope and other advanced space probes. https://www.esa.int/science_exploration/space_science/herschel/l2_the_second_lagrangian_point 50 comments space
Linking pages
- Lagrange Points Could Become Battlegrounds in a New Space Race : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/unique-locations-in-space-could-trigger-a-fierce-new-space-race 40 comments
- ESA - Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_maps_surprisingly_large_plume_jetting_from_Saturn_s_moon_Enceladus 5 comments
- L'Universo come non l'abbiamo mai visto - Il Post https://www.ilpost.it/2022/07/12/prime-foto-james-webb-space-telescope/ 3 comments
- Euclid telescope shares its first glimpses of the universe | CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/world/euclid-telescope-first-test-images-scn/index.html 0 comments