> Aren’t the rays of lights that makes a star pattern in the images an artifact of how JWST is capturing the light? I believe so, yes. > Shouldn’t that be scr

> Aren’t the rays of lights that makes a star pattern in the images an artifact of how JWST is capturing the light? I believe so, yes. > Shouldn’t that be scrubbed and removed? Not sure. They may have different levels of processing or different entire processes based in what properties of the image they're after maybe? It also seems possible that any processing to remove those would lose information. > Also, why do so many galaxies looks “stretched” as if there was motion blur? I believe that's the gravitational lensing. We're looking at _very_ far away things, and slightly less far away, for this one, (and just out of frame) there's a galaxy cluster that's magnifying the image and distorting it a bit.