NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

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Using a natural phenomena called “gravitational lensing”, a team of researchers and astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory have spotted and observed 44 stars in a ...