The spacecraft were 620,000 miles apart in deep space.
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft spotted the James Webb Space Telescope, circled in green. The two inset images show, on the left, the observatory at full resolution and, on the right, a second image taken nearly two hours after the first.
"Gaia is not designed to take real pictures of celestial objects," ESA noted."Instead, it collects very precise measurements of their positions, motions, distances, and colors. However, one part of the instruments on board takes a sort of sky images. It is the 'finder scope' of Gaia, also called the sky mapper."
An image shows the orbits of the James Webb Space Telescope and Gaia around the point in space dubbed L2.
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