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At 5 Lagrangian points (L1-L5) the pull of the Sun, Earth, and Moon balance. Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813) discovered them. L2 is 1.5 million km farther from the Sun than Earth and 4 X farther from Earth than the Moon. It will be home to the James Webb Space Telescope and other advanced space probes.

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