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ddalex on Jan 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: James Webb is fully deployed

The earth's shadow never reaches L2 anyhow - it's only penumbra at that distance since the angular size of the earth is smaller then the angular size of the Sun

mturmon on Jan 9, 2022 [–]

Good point. JW is at about 1.01 AU, and the solar radius is a bit over 100x the Earth radius, so there’s not really even a “shadow”.

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