Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 604, a star-forming region about 2.7 million light-years from Earth.

Light released by a distant star does not simply wink out after crossing some threshold of space. In a vacuum, photons keep moving indefinitely, and astronomers routinely detect light that has ...

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