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Astronomers from the Virtual Telescope Project have published a stunning photo of the legendary James Webb space telescope as it moves further and further away from Earth to fly into deep space. 

The world's most advanced and most expensive space telescope set out on 25 December, after repeated postponements, with the unprecedented task of answering the biggest questions in astrophysics, the birth of the first stars and the formation of galaxies. The instrument, which is intended to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, was captured by researchers at a ground-based observatory, capturing the moment the telescope was on its way to the L2 Lagrange point - the L2 Lagrange point. reported from Inverse. The space telescope is now approximately 1 million kilometres from Earth.

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James Webb is heading towards the L2 Lagrange point (Photo: Virtual Telescope Project)

Developed by the US, European and Canadian space agencies tool Named after James Webb, the second director of NASA. The highly complex structure is the world's most expensive space telescope, costing around $10.7 billion, or approximately $3,400 billion, to build.

One of the latest news from the instrument landscape is that it has been possible to open the main mirror of the device, which researchers refer to as the golden eye of the instrument, without any problems. In the coming weeks, the most advanced space telescope ever will travel to a region called the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, to use infrared light to study celestial objects that were previously inaccessible.

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