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"While all stars can create these patterns, we only see spikes with the brightest stars when a telescope takes an image."

These distant galaxies are incredibly faint, so I imagine that's the reason there are no obvious diffraction effects.

Yeah, the diffraction spikes in Webb/Hubble images are clues that those stars are nearby within the Milky Way.

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