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This animation illustrates the orbits of the Gaia space telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope.

Since 24 January 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope is in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point L2, about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. In the same region of space, the Gaia space telescope has performed its measurements since July 2014, orbiting L2 in a Lissajous orbit.

On Friday 18 February 2022 at 08:53 and 10:38 CET, the Webb observatory has been seen through Gaia's telescopes for the first time. Due to Gaia's continuous scanning of the sky this will happen again in the future - several dozen times over the next few years.

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Acknowledgements: François Mignard, Toni Sagristà Sellés, Stefan Jordan, Ulrich Bastian, José Hernandez, Uwe Lammers
Video editing: Stefan Jordan
Video created with Gaia Sky (developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés): https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/ou...
The artificial voice was produced with: https://ttsmp3.com (free usage allowed)