Numbs anything it comes into contact with I imagine, and no. Vicks even has a benzocaine throat soray, which saves my ass during the spring pollen-pocalypse

You can also use benzocaine spray, works a hell of alot better than phenol. …I heard from a friend.

And if I’m not mistaken, hubble looks at different wavelengths of light than JWST, so naturally their observations are going to look different. JWST looks at infrared or near IR while hubble sees mostly visible light.

John Oliver did a bit on it 2021