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Image by NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
NASA has released the first images from the new James Webb infrared space telescope, showing off the clarity advantage it has over the 32-year-old Hubble telescope. Webb can see faint light from galaxies so old that scientists aren't even quite sure just how old they are yet, indications of water in a distant gas giant's atmosphere, the second star previously hidden from view in a planetary nebula, shockwaves and an active galactic nucleus in a galactic quintet, and previously hidden starbirths in the colorful Carina Nebula.
This BBC article includes, about 2/3rds of the way through, an image comparison of the same shot taken by Webb and Hubble—notice not only the increased clarity of the foreground galaxies, but also the vastly more dense population of background galaxies seen by Webb.
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