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Sharmila Kuthunur

'That's weird': James Webb Space Telescope spies a strange galaxy outshining its stars

A large field of stars and galaxies with one shown in a small white squre, then magnified in a larger white square near the center.

In a pocket of the universe teeming with galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope has zeroed in on one blazing so brightly it outshines its stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the galaxy named GS-NDG-9422 — a realm that existed about one billion years after the Big Bang, and indeed one that may provide the missing link of galaxy evolution between the universe's first stars and well-structured galaxies.

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