It would be great if they did a before and after shot.
Like, here’s what we could see at this point in space before. Now we can see… THIS!
Like, here’s what we could see at this point in space before. Now we can see… THIS!
You could call those lens flares I guess, but commonly known as diffraction spikes when it comes to telescopes. In this case they appear because of the supporting struts in the James Webb telescope.
Choosing a limited palette in order to save bytes, some might say is compression. If said compression hurts the image quality, some might call that "compression artifacts".
The point stands, GIF was a poor choice for the format here.