More information: Yoshinobu Fudamoto et al, Identification of more than 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift 0.725, Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02432-3.

"To us, galaxies that are very far away usually look like a diffuse, fuzzy blob," study lead author Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer at Chiba University in Japan, said in a statement.

"To us, galaxies that are very far away usually look like a diffuse, fuzzy blob," lead author Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an assistant professor at Chiba University in Japan, said in a statement.

An illustration showing how Webb collects data on extremely distant stars. Graphic: Yoshinobu Fudamoto “Inside the galaxy cluster, there are many stars floating around that are not bound by any ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of ...