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Northrop Grumman's artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows the spacecraft's 6.5-meter primary mirror populated, with 18 semi-rigid hexagonal segments, and its deployable, multi-layer sunshield. JWST will be able to look far beyond the reach of current telescopes, with about 10 times the light-gathering capabilities of Hubble and will enable to see objects 400 times fainter than those currently studied with ground telescopes. From an orbit at the L2 Lagrange point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, JWST will search for cosmic clues about the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the Universe.