This is a gravitationally lensed galaxy cluster observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. Any questions? Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Vicente Estrada-Carpenter Did the cosmos just hand us a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic question mark thanks to a rare form of gravitational lensing. When you purchase ...

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The red galaxy interacting with a spiral galaxy was magnified and distorted in an unusual way, which NASA said involved a "rare alignment between the galaxies, the lens, and the observer," known as a ...

Astronomers in Canada used the James Webb Space Telescope — and a third time-and-space-bending galaxy cluster — to capture an image of two galaxies millions of lightyears away Charlotte Phillipp is a ...

It's 7 billion years ago, and the universe's heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers have found clues in the form of a ...