A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B ...

Hubble's sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our sun. They look like grains of sand across the beach.

stumbled on the trove of stars while looking for a background gravitationally lensed galaxy in images of the Dragon taken by the JWST in 2022 and 2023. "When we processed the data, we realized ...