"James Webb Telescope Unveils Ancient Supernova and Massive Quiescent Galaxy, Unraveling Cosmic Enigmas"

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"James Webb Telescope Unveils Ancient Supernova and Massive Quiescent Galaxy, Unraveling Cosmic Enigmas"
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of a rare, warped supernova named SN H0pe, which appears three times due to gravitational lensing. This supernova, located 16 billion light-years away, could help solve the Hubble tension, a discrepancy between two methods of estimating the rate of the universe's expansion. SN H0pe is a type 1a supernova, known as a "standard candle," which allows astronomers to measure the universe's expansion. By studying more distant standard candles, researchers hope to finally resolve the Hubble tension.

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