This app compares Hubble and Webb images — the differences are astronomical

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An image of the Carina Nebula captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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NASA released a new photograph of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 last week which depicts a cluster of galaxies in space invisible to the human eye.

The image was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion satellite that took decades of research and innovation to develop.

As most of the world collectively gasped, Reddit user pizzafourlife’s reaction to the images was:

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