James Webb horror as £8.4bn NASA space telescope damaged by meteorite collision - Express

THE JAMES Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA's most expensive and powerful telescope ever made, has suffered damage after being smashed by a space rock.

However, scientists have noted that given Webb’s orbit around Lagrangian point 2 about one million miles from Earth, the observatory will only face potentially hazardous micrometeoroids about once pe… [+850 chars]

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