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Webb Looks at One of the Best Gravitationally Lensed Quasars Ever Discovered


It looks like a distant ring with three sparkly jewels, but the Webb telescope's (JWST) most recent image is really the view of a distant quasar lensed by a nearby elliptical galaxy. The telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) looked at the faint apparition during a study of dark matter and its distribution in the Universe.

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