# The Stars Were Always There. We Just Couldn't See Them.

- slug: the-stars-were-always-there-we-just-couldnt-see-them
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Space & Aerospace

JWST and ALMA are the two best observatories in existence. They looked at the same star-forming cloud and found almost entirely different stars — only 24 sources in common out of roughly 240 total. The 10 percent overlap is itself a finding.

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