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Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope

The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss

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The Space Telescope Protects It From the Sun

The telescope is located in a position called the lagrange point. It protects it from dangerous solar radiation. Unlike the hopo space telescope, which is going round the earth nd and thereforeis periodically in sunlight. This, the jane pace telescope, is always looking away from the sun. And you can observe all the time.

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