The protruding refractions in the bright star in that picture are created by the hexagonal shaped mirrors used on the James webb telescope. Thats what I know from watching the launch and keeping up with its unfolding and alignment of the array.
When focusing outside of our galaxy, any telescope will do this to items in the "foreground ". What constitutes foreground for the Webb telescope, or the Hubble for that matter, is stars in our own Galaxy that " get in the way" of the far focus view field.
Also the bubbles mirrors are circular so there wouldn’t be any refracting lines protruding form bright objects like the ones from the James Webb picture
Not seeing any 6 sided lights in high res hubble images. But I just started looking.
The protruding refractions in the bright star in that picture are created by the hexagonal shaped mirrors used on the James webb telescope. Thats what I know from watching the launch and keeping up with its unfolding and alignment of the array.
When focusing outside of our galaxy, any telescope will do this to items in the "foreground ". What constitutes foreground for the Webb telescope, or the Hubble for that matter, is stars in our own Galaxy that " get in the way" of the far focus view field.
Also the bubbles mirrors are circular so there wouldn’t be any refracting lines protruding form bright objects like the ones from the James Webb picture