The telescope will arrive at Lagrange point 2 on Monday, where it will drift 930,000 miles away in Earth's shadow.
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Each pair of gravitationally bound objects—a sun and its planet, say, or a planet and one of its moons—has five Lagrange points. An asteroid or a spacecraft, for instance, can live at one of those five points without falling out of orbit. L4 and L5 are more stable than their counterparts—they can pull in gas, dust, and even larger objects. Astronomers have discovered at least two asteroids at the sun and Earth’s L4 and L5, and they’re hunting for more. Other sun-planet pairs have captured objects at these points, too. The sun and Jupiter’s L4 and L5 points are home to whole groups of asteroids, known as trojans, which NASA’s Lucy probeL3 is the odd point without a counterpart.
“Any heat from the Earth or the moon would be something that we would have to fight with, and we’re trying to detect the faintest signals of galaxies and stars across the universe,” says Milam.
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