On 25 December 2021, NASA, together with ESA and CSA launched a 6 tone device into a halo orbit around the second lagrange point (L2), for conducting infrared astronomy. That is approximately 1,500,000 km beyond the orbit of Earth.

The cost was $10B, about $9B more than the initially planned $1 billion budget. But it seems that humanity was more than happy to pay that amount for something that can generate a weekly background for our desktops.

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