As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially identified the universe’s first stars, formed shortly after the Big Bang, through an Einstein ring. This groundbreaking discovery includes 44 ...
Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass shaped by gravity itself. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured what ...