Of course, we would be remiss to not talk about one of the biggest bits of news in space at the moment. On Monday, January 25, at 1900 UTC, the JWST fired its thrusters for almost five minutes to complete the last of its postlaunch course corrections. This particular burn inserted JWST into its halo orbit around the Earth-Sun Lagrange point 2 position, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Now engineers here on Earth will begin the process of aligning all the optics to nearly nanometer precision, which should take about three months.

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Orbital Insertion Burn a Success, Webb Arrives at L2 (NASA)