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Six
beryllium
mirror segments of the
James Webb Space Telescope
(JWST) undergoing a series of
cryogenic
tests at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center
in
Huntsville, Alabama
. The JWST is a planned
space telescope
that is a joint collaboration of 20 countries. It will orbit the Sun approximately 1,500,000 km (930,000 mi) beyond the Earth, around the
L
2
Lagrange point
. It is expected to launch in December 2021.
Photo:
NASA
/
MSFC
/David Higginbotham/Emmett Given
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