Disco was right! Nasa’s glitterball images were predicted by pop music

The James Webb space telescope’s work is essentially a Parliament rip-off. Composite: Casablanca Records and Nasa

What did you see when Nasa unveiled the first images from the James Webb space telescope? Your answer may hinge as much on your gasp of astrophysics as on your record collection.

The Nasa administrator, Bill Nelson, a former senator and ex-astronaut, was agog at “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe, so far”, for example.