The James Webb Space Telescope spied a cosmic question mark in deep space while observing two young stars located more than 1,000 light-years from Earth.
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to provide answers about the earliest days of the universe, but it's also discovering more questions.
"It is probably a distant galaxy, or potentially interacting galaxies ," representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which manages JWST's science operations, told Space.com. Matt Caplan, an assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University, told Space.com that the object might be two galaxies merging."The two distinct features could easily be merging galaxies in the background, with the upper part of the question mark being part of a larger galaxy getting tidally disrupted," Caplan said."Given the color of some of the other background galaxies, this doesn't seem like the worst explanation.
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