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Detailed explanation-1: -Launch date: Dec. 25, 2021. Cost (at time of launch): $10 billion. Orbit: JWST will orbit the sun, around the second Lagrange point (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -It took just 30 days for the James Webb Space Telescope to travel nearly a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) to its permanent home: Lagrange point 2 - a gravitationally stable location in space. The telescope arrived at L2, the second sun-Earth Lagrange point on Jan. 24, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -Webb will launch on December 25, 2021 07:20am EST ( 2021-12-25 12:20 GMT/UTC).

Detailed explanation-4: -NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the agency’s successor to the famous Hubble telescope, launched on Dec. 25, 2021 on a mission to study the earliest stars and peer back farther into the universe’s past than ever before.

Detailed explanation-5: -Webb has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant-which will be the farthest we’ve ever seen into space. This image of the galactic cluster known as SMACS 0723 contains thousands of galaxies, some of which are as far away as 13.1 billion light years.