In new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... foreground object acts a magnifying glass, the JWST revealed that the glimmering Firefly Sparkle galaxy has two companions, which together ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and ... The effect is essentially like looking through a giant magnifying glass. Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The strong gravitational ...

The phenomenon occurs when light bends around a large celestial body, making objects in space ... glass, researchers can usually only spot one or a few stars at a time. Light bent around the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...