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A treasure trove of unseen stars beyond the 'Dragon Arc'

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Astronomers have found 44 individual stars in a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth .

The discovery marks the largest number of individual stars detected in the distant universe.

It also provides a way to investigate one of the universe's greatest mysteries—dark matter.

Future JWST observations are expected to capture more individual stars.

More information: Yoshinobu Fudamoto et al , Identification of more than 40 gravitationally magnified stars in a galaxy at redshift 0.725 , Nature Astronomy ( 2025 ). DOI: 10.1038 /s41550-024-02432-3 Journal information: Nature Astronomy Provided by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .

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