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ESA/Hubble/Webb weic2418: Webb captures star clusters in Cosmic Gems arc. An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less …
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24 June 2024

An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover gravitationally bound star clusters when the Universe was 460 million years old. This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less than 500 million years after the Big bang.

The release, images and videos are available on:
https://esawebb.org/news/weic2418/

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ESA/Hubble/Webb Information Centre
24 June 2024

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