There's been a lot of discussion in the news lately about the
James Webb telescope. It's planned orbit is about 1.5 million miles from earth. I was curious how this compared to existing space objects so I rigged up a scale representation. The larger dotted circles are just for clarification of finding the much smaller centers and locations of the objects. The moon is about 250,000ish miles out from the earth and the hubble telescope, at 366 miles, would have been visually on top of earth in this view so I left it off. What do you think, does it properly convey the scale and ambition of the Webb telescope?
My first reaction upon reading this was to convert to AU, and then look up Venus's orbit. But that scale may be too big.
ReplyDeleteBut WOW!