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The Universe isn’t what it used to be

In spite of all the roiling news from the cosmos and the dark skies this week—the Milky Way’s central black hole is swallowing a massive dust cloud before astronomer’s observant eyes; the visible conjunction of Venus and Jupiter early this morning—let’s return to a notation made in last week’s Celestial Exploring column. We had mentioned in passing that the Webb Space Telescope (WST) had sent images of its infra-red camera probe into Abell 2744, “Pandora’s Cluster,” where three immense, merging galaxies provide a magnifying glass, known as “gravitational lensing”, for the objects veiled behind them. Over 50,000 previously dim objects have now been seen anew, and among them are previously unknown galaxies. That’s a pretty big deal for those who chart the history and makeup…