Two of our galaxy’s most famous stars were recently photobombed by what appears to be a celestial question mark. The symbol was spotted in a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

SPACE – A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is leading to a giant question – or moreover one about a giant question mark.The photo was released by the European Space Agency on July 26.

Experts in the UK say the question mark is perhaps less cryptic than it appears - and could simply show two merging galaxies, with one being stretched out by the gravity of the other.

So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail. The image taken by the telescope, released last month, shows Herbig-Haro 46/47, which is a star forming cloud, Caplan explained.

Their interactions may have caused the distorted question mark-shape,” representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which manages the telescope’s science operations ...