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Started by Legend, Sep 02, 2014, 07:17 PM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a bad error about the JWST.  
He claims here that JWST is orbiting at L2 in Earth's shadow and that it protects the instruments from the sun.

JWST is not orbiting at L2, it's orbiting around L2, and is in fact never in Earth's shadow.