James Webb Space Telescope — spacecraft, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.
A 6.5-metre golden eye parked beyond the Moon at the L2 point, watching the first galaxies ignite. It orbits the Sun in lockstep with Earth, 1.5 million km behind us in the night.
Cosmoscope draws James Webb Space Telescope on its real trajectory, from mission ephemeris rather than an artist's impression. Open the live 3D view to see where James Webb Space Telescope is right now, how far it has travelled from the Sun, and how long its radio signal takes to reach Earth. Scrub the timeline to replay the route that took it there.