MACS0647's immense
gravity works as a cosmic lens, bending and magnifying light from the more
distant MACS0647-JD system. It also triple-lensinged the JD system, causing its
picture to appear in three different places. These photos are labelled JD1,
JD2, and JD3 and are emphasised with white boxes. The redshift of MACS0647-JD
is roughly 11, putting it in the first 400 million years after the Big Bang.
The diagonal, long line The lengthy, diagonal line running through the
photograph is a diffraction spike from a brilliant star just beyond the frame.
Please keep in mind
that this graphic depicts data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet
been peer-reviewed.
[Image Description: A
James Webb Space Telescope image of galaxy cluster MACS0647 and the very
distant galaxy MACS0647-JD. At left, the cluster appears as a sea of galaxies
on a black background and three small boxes outlined in white mark the
locations of the three images of galaxy MACS0647-JD. Enlarged images of these
boxes appear in a column down the right side of the screen]
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA,
and STScI, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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