Unlike the #Hubble Space Telescope, #JWST is not orbiting Earth! Because it's designed to look for faint heat in the early universe, it has to be far away so that the Earth's heat doesn't overpower what it's observing!

JWST is orbiting a point in space called L2, a gravitationally stable point nearly a million miles beyond Earth.

In this gif, the sun is at the center, Earth is the large blue dot, and you can see JWST orbiting an empty point in space beyond Earth. This is not to scale!