Great article! One correction: JWST has been at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million km from Earth, since launch. As a space telescope JWST is designed to see things far away, so it doesn't have to travel any further from Earth than that. The much smaller New Horizons spacecraft made the 5 billion km journey to Pluto a decade ago and remains the only spacecraft to have visited Pluto.
Great article! One correction: JWST has been at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million km from Earth, since launch. As a space telescope JWST is designed to see things far away, so it doesn't have to travel any further from Earth than that. The much smaller New Horizons spacecraft made the 5 billion km journey to Pluto a decade ago and remains the only spacecraft to have visited Pluto.