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What did the first JWST images reveal?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Gravitational Lensing Is Linging From Dark Matter

Gravitational lensing is lancing from a huge gravitational cluster between us and the background galaxies. And that gravitational cluster is mostly dark matter. When you look at this image, you are looking very directly at the effects of dark matterr it's sort of like your seeing a lens in space. It's as close as we can get to seeing dark matter, yet you can see it. Tostis: We might even be able to see galaxies forming,. Like, could we maybe see so far back that there aren't even any galaxies we might? The first stars formed after those dark ages. We think it was a few hundred million years after the beginning of the universe.

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