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James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may finally have the answer to how the Phoenix cluster forms stars.

They used the powerful instrument to investigate the extreme cooling of gas in the Phoenix Cluster .

The Phoenix cluster is a grouping of galaxies bound by gravity located around 5.8 billion light-years from Earth .

This seeming contradiction has led to the cluster becoming an object of mystery.