Mathematics and the Lagrange Point

Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to "sit at a Lagrange point". Dillon Mayhew talks us through this mathematical concept.

Over the last month or two, there has been a lot of press coverage of the new James Webb Space Telescope, and quite a lot of that coverage has mentioned the fact that the telescope is going to “sit at a Lagrange point”. Dillon Mayhew talks us through this mathematical concept.

Mathematics and the Lagrange Point
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