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These six distant galaxies captured by JWST are wowing astronomers
A model of JWST at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which operates the observatory. Lee Feinberg, in the background, is the telescope’s manager. Credit: Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty
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Nature 619, 16-17 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02157-9
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