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Webb telescope snaps view of an exploded star. It's an invaluable find.

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The James Webb Space Telescope 's latest psychedelic view reveals an exploded star.

From our perch in the galaxy, the new stellar blast appears three times in a warped line.

This distorting effect happens because objects in space can be so massive — often clusters of galaxies — that they warp the cosmos, like a bowling ball sitting on a mattress.

Astronomers can use the differences in light from the distant supernova to help measure the expansion of the universe.

Already, astronomers have successfully found intriguing chemical reactions on a planet 700 light-years away, and have started looking at one of the most anticipated places in the cosmos: the rocky, Earth -sized planets of the TRAPPIST solar system. Topics NASA .