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Galaxies’ missing matter may be found – but now there’s too much of it
The spiral galaxy M99, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Kasliwal Many large galaxies were long…
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Colliding Dwarf Galaxies Reveal a Glimpse of the Early Universe
For the first time, astronomers think they’ve spotted two pairs of merging dwarf galaxies, with each pair sporting a duo…
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JWST Discovers Enormous Distant Galaxies That Should Not Exist
Nobody expected them. They were not supposed to be there. And now, nobody can explain how they had formed. Galaxies…
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Huge young galaxies seen by JWST may upend our models of the universe
Galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope seem far too massive to have formed so early on in the…
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At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
After two years of data-taking and number-crunching, a team of astronomers has dropped a snapshot of, quite literally, cosmic proportions.…
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Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
Scientists just announced that they’ve detected what might be some of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, a…
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JWST has broken the record for most distant galaxy ever confirmed
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant galaxy ever definitively confirmed, which formed within about 325 million…
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Astronomers Grapple with JWST’s Discovery of Early Galaxies
In their quest to understand the first stars and galaxies that lit up the cosmos, astronomers are still in the…
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The Enigma of Dragonfly 44, the Galaxy That’s Almost Invisible
In 2016, astronomers led by Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University published a bombshell paper claiming the discovery of a…
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Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from Hubble
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view,…
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