Bensemus t1_jbfk8n9 wrote
Reply to comment by bad_syntax in James Webb Telescope captures the same galaxy at three different points in time in a single mind-boggling image by mirzavadoodulbaig
Just to be clear this isn't a time lapse. It's a single photos that has capture the galaxy at three different points in time. This is possible due to gravitational lensing. Light from the galaxy took three paths to get to us, each one longer than the last.
bad_syntax t1_jbfqksz wrote
Yeah, and its a long enough time that you can't build an animation out of it, unlike this:
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