A treasure trove of molecules has turned up in two galaxies that we see as they were over 12 billion years ago, revealing information about how the ancient realms form stars. One of the distant galaxies, APM 08279+5255, is home to a quasar — an active supermassive black hole at […]
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Some of the biggest, most intense regions of star formation are found in the smallest of galaxies, and scientists believe this is because stars reaching the ends of their lives in the so-called dwarf galaxies are more likely to turn into black holes than explode in supernovas. The contrast is […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since becoming operational last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has made groundbreaking observations involving some of the universe’s earliest galaxies. One might call them galactic infants. But Webb has obtained even better data on galaxies a bit further along in development. Astronomers call […]
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a collection of galaxies dating to the enigmatic epoch called cosmic dawn. But the existence of what appear to be massive […]
Astronomers announced on Thursday (Sept. 28) that they had for the first time captured the faint glow of the largest structure in the universe known as the “cosmic web,” a network of filaments that connect galaxies across the universe. Images such as these unveil valuable information about how galaxies form […]
James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared image of the galaxy cluster El Gordo NASA, ESA, CSA Galaxies in the early universe have fewer metals than expected. Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have shown that these galaxies don’t follow a fundamental rule about galaxy evolution that is at work […]
What did galaxies in the early universe look like? Surprisingly close to our own Milky Way, according to the latest findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose unprecedented infrared eye has been rewriting what we thought we knew about the early universe. Astronomers have long thought that newly […]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that galaxies in the early universe were cosmic rule-breakers. This discovery sheds light on how early galaxies evolved and the fundamental processes that shaped the universe as we see it today. To discover the truth about these cosmic scofflaws, a team of […]