Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

That allowed researchers to see dozens of stars at once. "This groundbreaking discovery demonstrates, for the first time, that studying large numbers of individual stars in a distant galaxy is ...