The powerful, Tucson-born infrared eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope have notched another record for long-range viewing: the largest number of individual stars ever detected in the distant ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

The discovery was made owing to a scientific phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, which is when a large celestial body ...

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.

Taking advantage of a cosmic 'double lens,' astronomers resolved more than 40 individual stars in a galaxy so far away its light dates back to when the universe was only half its present age.

The galaxy Dragon Arc was observed along the line of sight to the galaxy cluster Abell 370, which acts as a cosmic magnifying glass.

Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

Abell 370 observed with a combination of HST and new James Webb Space Telescope images. (José María Diego; Instituto de Física de Cantabria via SWNS) By Stephen Beech More than 40 new stars have been ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...