On December 25, 2021, the James Webb telescope was launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket. The James Webb telescope is the most powerful telescope ever produced by humans and is over 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. The estimated cost was around $9 billion USD. While the expected discoveries of Webb will be the most exciting part of the program, I believe a very interesting part is where Webb will be located, in Lagrange L2. Joseph-Louis Lagrange was an 18th-century mathematician who found the solution to what is called the “three-body problem.” That is, is there any stable configuration, in which three bodies could orbit each other, yet stay in the same position relative to each other? As it turns out, there are five solutions to this problem – and they are called the five Lagrange points, after their discoverer. While the physics of this problem is fascinating to study, the most intriguing part to me is at L2, humanity will most likely find the most striking discoveries about the Universe ever witnessed by humans. The location itself, L2, is just a term describing a location in space, but from that simple location, we will peer back into time billions of years to find the elements of what makes us human. I find that very powerful, and think we owe a debt of gratitude to Joseph Louis Lagrange, and his discovery that will make this journey possible. I look up each night and think about what Webb is doing, and waiting until this May when we hope to see some of the first images of our past.