JWST's 6.5-meter gold-coated beryllium mirror and infrared instruments, stationed at the L2 Lagrange point, have already detected galaxies forming just 300 million years after the Big Bang, characterized exoplanet atmospheres, and revealed protoplanetary disk structures invisible to any previous telescope.

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