This keeps me going. The sun, so close, yet so hard to 'see' with any real insights. But when the expensive trinkets get to look at it...wow. This is taking away from the attention due to my carving (below), but what the heck - this is way cooler.
The observatory is orbiting at about 1,528,483 Kilometers from Earth and 150,703,456 kilometers from the Sun, and it's "orbit is around a mathematical point between the Earth and the Sun known as the Lagrange point or the L1 point. The L1 point is a point of equilibrium between the Earth's and Sun's gravitational field, that is to say that the pull is equal from both the Sun and the Earth." Quoted from the website. Basically, it is a complex math problem, but one that gives constant observation of our closest star and awsome images such as this:
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