NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures a Lensed Cosmic Question Mark

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this peculiar image of galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154, which resembles a cosmic question mark of sorts. How so? The cluster acts like a magnifying because it’s so massive that it warps the fabric of space-time. This lensing allows astronomers to see enhanced detail in much more distant galaxies behind the cluster. However, the same gravitational effects that magnify the galaxies also cause distortion, resulting in galaxies that appear smeared across the sky in arcs and …