Zoom in on a stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope and you might be in for a little surprise.
lurks a curlicue and blob of light in the shape of an English punctuation mark: the question mark.
It's unclear exactly what the object is, but it's relatively far away; generally speaking, the redder an object appears in a field image, . This is because the accelerating expansion of the Universe stretches light as it travels towards us, lengthening it into the redder parts of the spectrum.The two blobs appear to be roughly the same color, raising the intriguing possibility that they could be two distant galaxies interacting.
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