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Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer at the irregular dwarf galaxy NGC 6822, spotting a stunning star field some 1.5 million light-years from Earth.
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Astronomers turned the James Webb Space Telescope to the galaxy NGC 6822, spotting countless stars and giant cosmic clouds. Scientists have investigated this galaxy since the 19th century.
In 1884, over a century before the James Webb Space Telescope was even imagined, astronomer E. E. Barnard spotted a faint object in the sky. He supposed it was a great cosmic cloud, called a nebula. Other scientists weren't so sure. Then in the 1920s, the famed astronomer Edwin Hubble which the Earth-orbiting Hubble telescope is named for deeply investigated NGC 6822. He found it existed well beyond our Milky Way galaxy, helping to prove objects lay outside of our cosmic neighborhood. Scientists continued to investigate NGC 6822, which today we know as a galaxy located some 1.5 million light-years away (meaning it takes 1.5 million years for its distant light to reach us). Now, the Webb telescope the most powerful space observatory ever built has peered into NGC 6822, showing "countless stars in incredible detail," the European Space Agency (ESA) explained. SEE ALSO: Webb telescope shows fantastic powers by zooming into alien planet - In the first image below, yo