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“The Universe Breakers”: Six Galaxies That are Too Big, Too Early
In the first data taken last summer with the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the new James Webb Space Telescope,…
Clouds of Carbon Dust Seen When the Universe was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic…
Galaxies Aren’t Just Stars. They’re Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust
Astronomers have studied the star formation process for decades. As we get more and more capable telescopes, the intricate details…
Webb Sees Three Galaxy Clusters Coming Together to Form a Megacluster
The latest JWST deep-field image provides a breathtaking view of Pandora's Cluster, which was previously imaged by Hubble.
JWST Unexpectedly Finds a Small Asteroid During ‘Failed’ Observations
While astronomers and engineers were trying to calibrate one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s instruments last summer, they serendipitously…
Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape
An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope
Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang
Staring off into the ancient past with a $10 billion space telescope, hoping to find extraordinarily faint signals from the…
Cosmic Noon was Billions of Years ago, When Many Galaxies Were Filled With Star-Forming Nebulae Like This
You’re looking at NGC 346, a star cluster 210 light years away that is energetically pumping out brand new stars…
New JWST Image Shows That Grand Spiral Galaxies had Already Formed 11 Billion Years ago
For the first time this week, photos from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that stellar bars were present…
Webb’s New Image Reveals a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation
When a spiral galaxy presents itself just right, observations reveal more detail. That's the case with NGC 7469, a spiral…