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JWST discovery helps answer how galaxies, like our own Milky Way, were born
When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...
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Whooo's there? James Webb telescope spots 'Cosmic Owl,' super-rare structure formed from colliding ring galaxies
Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...
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Infinity Galaxy or Cosmic Owl? Webb Telescope Catches 2 Ring Galaxies Colliding
What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...
Astronomers discover ‘fossil galaxy’ 3 billion light-years away
A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...
Galaxies Had a “Thick Phase” – JWST Just Revealed How They Slimmed Down
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
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'Time machine' reveals hidden structures in the universe's first galaxies (images)
Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
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Deep-Sky Dreams: NGC 3079 and Quasar 0957+561
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
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JWST unlocks 10-billion-year mystery of how galaxies shape themselves
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...
ALMA reveals hidden structures in the first galaxies of the universe
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...