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SPACE — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle scientists and the public alike with stunning images of space.
On Friday, the agency released a handful of pictures to commemorate two years of the telescope being in operation and what was showcased is truly stunning.
An image scientists have dubbed "the Penguin and the Egg" shows two, seemingly intertwined galaxies.
"This pair of galaxies has been interacting for several hundred million years and will continue to do so," Eric Smith, a scientist with the James Webb Space Telescope Program, told Fox 13 Seattle.
Jane Rigby, a senior scientist with the James Webb Space Telescope Program, said the telescope has found galaxies scientists are seeing as they were when the universe was only about 300 million years old — a spring chicken compared to its current age of 13.8 billion years old.
It's not just looking back, though. Scientists say they're using the telescope to determine if distant planets have habitable atmospheres.
Some of the most exciting things on the horizon are things we haven't thought of yet. I think we have some surprises left out there for us.
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