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JWST tracks more than 100 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy
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The Brief
- JWST identified 104 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy, about 6.5 billion light-years away.
- The count more than doubles the previous record of 44 detections in the same galaxy.
- The findings come from a team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope.
Why it matters
The detections extend gravitational microlensing studies of distant stars, giving astronomers a much larger sample of magnified stellar events in a single distant galaxy.
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers identified 104 magnified stellar events in a galaxy known as the Dragon, located around 6.5 billion light-years away. This discovery more than doubles the previous record of 44 such detections in the same galaxy…
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JWST tracks more than 100 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy