NASA's James Webb Telescope Observes Millions Of Stars Within 'Cigar Galaxy'
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- The James Webb telescope picked out 16.5 million individual stars in the Cigar Galaxy — a neighbor forming stars ten times faster than the Milky Way, in a burst estimated to last only a few hundred million years Space Daily · 122d ago
- NASA's James Webb Telescope Observes Millions Of Stars Within 'Cigar Galaxy' NDTV · 122d ago
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