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Podcast: Radio Astronomy
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Webb uses space-bending gravity trick to discover distant stars
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:28:01
Publish Date: 2025-02-14 00:00:00
Description:

Massive objects in space warp spacetime to the extent that they can act like cosmic magnifying glasses, allowing astronomers to get a better view of the deep cosmos. This technique, known as gravitational lensing, has been used by the James Webb Space Telescope to discover a group of stars that existed at a key stage in the evolution of the Universe.

 

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