# JWST tracks more than 100 magnified stellar events in the Dragon galaxy

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- Published: 2026-11-08T19:20:01+00:00
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers identified 104 magnified stellar events in a galaxy known as the Dragon, located around 6.5 billion light-years away. This discovery more than doubles the previous record of 44 such detections in the same galaxy. Because these kinds of events reveal some of the most luminous stars and likely the presence of dark matter, this study

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