James Webb telescope in observing position

(News 1st); The James Webb telescope has arrived at the designated position in space where it spots the Universe.

The mind behind the invention is Northrop Grumman.

The Lagrange point 2, as it is, is a million miles from the Earth.

Webb has finally prod into a orbit around this location thanks to a five-minute thruster burn.

Controllers back on Earth will now spend the coming months tuning the telescope to get it ready for experiments.

Key tasks include redirecting on the observatory's four gadgets and also focusing its mirrors - in particular, its 6.5m-wide segmented primary reflector.

Furthermore, the chief engineer on Webb Charlie Atkinson explained that there's a pretty intensive effort to take all of those 18 segments from their current state and get them to act as one big mirror, and also to get the secondary mirror into its optimized condition.

Moreover, he said to the international media that they do this using science images, and they need to get the instruments activated and investigate with some initial calibration work.

Webb billed as the successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope, was launched on 25 December by an Ariane-5 rocket from French Guiana.

Its overarching goals are to take pictures of the very first stars to glimmer in the Universe and to probe far-off planets to see if they might be usable.