At about 1:48 p.m., the second-degree detachment took place, and the space observatory, whose mission reached ten billion dollars (223 billion crowns), will settle 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, almost five times as far as the moon.
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The moon will fly to the second Lagrange point where the gravitational influences of the Earth and the Sun balance. The preparations and tests of the device will take another five months before the telescope starts scanning the cosmos.
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Webb’s telescope will be the largest and most powerful space telescope launched by humans to date. It should oversee the beginnings of the existence of our universe, when the first stars and galaxies formed 13.5 billion years ago.
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According to NASA, it will directly observe a hitherto unseen part of space and time. The device is designed to “see” the infrared light that is now coming to us in this form from the most distant objects.
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