After a Million-Mile Journey, James Webb Telescope Reaches Destination

 

Jeffrey Colangelo

01/26/22

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Roulette, Joey. “After a Million-Mile Journey, James Webb Telescope Reaches Destination.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/james-webb-telescope-arrival.html?searchResultPosition=4. 

 

            The article that I read was written by the New York Times and was called “After Million-Mile Journey, James Webb Telescope Reaches Destination.” This article was about how the brand new James Webb space telescope had just reached its final destination. In the article it says, “The telescope launched to space on Dec. 25, with astronomers all over the world holding their breaths.” This shows that the telescope has been on route to its final destination since Christmas day of 2021. Now on Monday, January 24 of 2022 the Telescope has finally reached its destination. The destination of the telescope is located past the moon and the telescope will rotate around the sun with the earth for many years. 

This is a very relevant topic in space and science today and for many years to come for research on our entire universe. The power of this telescope is supposed to help researchers on the earth see farther than we have ever seen before and to be able to see light from billions of years ago. This telescope will help to gauge our understanding of how big the universe really is and whether it ever ends.   

The strength of this article is that it gives the reader a basic understanding of what the telescope does and what is currently going on and the most recent news about the telescope. This article doesn’t really help to get an in depth understanding of how the telescope works and the engineering behind how it works. Although this article mostly wasn’t made to get in depth information on the telescope it still would have been interesting to know why some things are the way they are or why this location is the best for the telescope.