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26 January 2022

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[ 25 January 2022 ] Webb reaches Lagrange Point 2, setting stage for mirror alignment News
[ 24 January 2022 ] Astronomers mining an increasingly rich trove of TESS exoplanet data News
[ 17 January 2022 ] Black hole contains nearly all the mass at the heart of the Milky Way News
[ 10 January 2022 ] Webb mirrors fully deployed, clearing the way for alignment News
[ 5 January 2022 ] ‘We nailed it!’ Webb clears major hurdle with full sunshade deployment News

NASA’s ‘Great Observatories’ team up to find magnified image of distant galaxy

17 January 2018 Astronomy Now

An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.