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New Rare 'Kaiju' Star Discovered With a Lens Made of Dark Matter
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JWST images of the arc hosting Mothra. (Diego et al., arXiv, 2023)Mothra – more formally known as EMO J041608.8−240358 – was discovered in observations of the distant galaxy collected by the James Webb Space Telescope. Even JWST, as powerful as it is, would usually struggle to pick out individual stars over such vast gulfs of space and time; but the region of space is one that's been strongly magnified by a gravitational lens.
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