# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvfxSW0JnAv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8146407-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-03T20:48:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

‘Cause I’m just a teenage dustbag, baby ⁣
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NASAWebb has captured a new image of a "teenage galactic cluster" known as El Gordo — and it's revealing distant and dusty objects never before seen. El Gordo existed when the universe was 6.2 billion years old which means it’s in its teens (and knows everything). ⁣
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It’s the most massive cluster of its era and doubles as a natural magnifying glass through a phenomena called gravitational lensing – its powerful gravity bends and distorts light of objects lying behind it, much like an eyeglass lens. ⁣
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In the second image, take a closer look at two of the background galaxies magnified by El Gordo:⁣
- The long thin line in Box A is known as La Flaca. Webb used its extreme infrared sensitivity to spot a red giant star within, the first star of this type observed beyond 1 billion light-years from Earth.⁣
- The bright arc in Box B is El Anzuelo, or The Fishhook. Light from this galaxy took 10.6 billion years to reach Earth.⁣
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Image descriptions:⁣
1. A black background is scattered with hundreds of small galaxies of different shapes, ranging in color from white to yellow to red. Some galaxies appear warped. A handful of foreground stars display eight diffraction spikes.⁣
2. Image with three panels. The top panel is the previous galaxy field, cropped to spotlight two objects that each have white boxes around them. In the lower left of this top panel is Box A, and at upper right is Box B. The bottom left panel is a close-up of Box A. It shows a thin, mottled line extending from upper left to lower right with a handful of background objects. The bottom right panel is a close-up of Box B. It highlights a red swoosh wrapping from upper left to lower right, nearly encircling two small galaxies.⁣
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Brenda Frye (University of Arizona), Patrick Kamieneski (ASU), Tim Carleton (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), with image processing by Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Aaron Robotham (UWA), Rogier Windhorst (ASU).⁣
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#NASA #Space #JWST #NASAWebb #Astronomy #ElGordo #LaFlaca #ElAnzuelo #Fishhook ⁣

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elgordo, jwst, astronomy, fishhook, nasawebb, nasa, laflaca, space, elanzuelo

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