The American space agency NASA says its powerful James Webb Space Telescope has successfully reached its final position in orbit around the sun. James Webb fired its rocket thrusters Monday for nearly five minutes to push the spacecraft into position about 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, NASA said in a statement. The agency describes James Webb as “the largest and most powerful space science telescope ever built.” It is meant to add to the discoveries of past telescopes, while gathering more in-depth data on the early development of the universe. The orbiting observatory launched from French Guiana about a month ago. Its final position is known as the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2. This is a point where the gravitational forces of the sun and Earth balance each other. This will permit the telescope to stay in line with Earth as it orbits the sun.