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A Tiny Patch of Sky.

Teeming with glittering lights.

John Ellis
May 06, 2025
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1. In the latest image release, the powerful James Webb Space Telescope gazed back nearly 12 billion light-years into a tiny patch of sky, less than a fifth of the width of the full Moon. That little patch of sky is teeming with glittering lights. It looks a lot like any patch of the sky seen when you look up from the ground on a cloudless night, with one major, jaw-dropping difference. Most of the lights in the new JWST-Hubble composite image are not bright stars, but galaxies, stretching back almost as far across space-time as the beginning of the Universe. (Source: sciencealert.com)

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