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[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

The Webb produces some beautiful pictures, as always, but identifying 800k galaxies in an area 2 1/2 times the size of the moon is hard to conceive. Both how good a telescope it is, and the scale of the universe.

Don't think it says it in the link, but if you assume that all galaxies are randomly oriented, then in the places when the distribution isn't quite average, you can assume that light has been pulled by gravity's 'hidden hand'. And with nearly a million galaxies to analyse, you get a very good picture of how sources of gravity are distributed.