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Old 01-26-2022, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox View Post
The newspaper just says "New space telescope reaches final stop near Sun" - so it claims it is "near" the Sun, not nearer the Sun than something else

and since L2 is 1 million miles from the Earth on the non-Sunny side, every telescope on Earth is nearer the Sun than this one
I think you could even go further. Every telescope ever produced in all history is closer to the sun than this telescope.

While there are probes out further with telescopic cameras, they aren't considered space telescopes.