NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged 16.5 million stars in the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light-years away, in a 223-megapixel composite.
Why it mattersWebb's ability to resolve millions of individual stars within a distant galaxy demonstrates a new level of infrared telescope capability for deep-sky science.
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