Where Is the James Webb Telescope Right Now and When Will It Reach Its Destination? - Newsweek
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is nearing its final destination.
A joint collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, JWST is the largest and most powerful space observatory ever built, promising to revolutionize our understanding of the universe.Unlike the pioneering Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits the Earth, JWST will insert itself into an orbit around the sun at a special location known as the second Lagrange point, or L2.According to NASA's James Webb tracker, the observatory has completed just over 91 percent of the distance toward L2 at the time of writing, meaning it is currently located more than 821,000 miles from Earth in the direction of the second Lagrange point.