Astronomers armed with exceptionally detailed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images have discovered dozens of ancient stars from a distant, gravitationally warped galaxy. The stellar haul, which was uncovered thanks to a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein, is the largest of its kind ever seen so far away.
The newly imaged stars are located within the "Dragon Arc," a spiral galaxy roughly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth when the universe was around half its current age. Normally, such distant stars are too far away to be seen in detail. But part of the Dragon Arc has been magnified by gravitational lensing, a phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1915.
