To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

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Astronomers report that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA) has discovered traces of oxygen in the very ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

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Are quiescent disks in early-universe galaxies hiding a much more violent reality? Recent research suggests that they might ...

A recent breakthrough in astronomical research,published in Nature Astronomy, has provided a detailed glimpse into the ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Even with the Hubble Space Telescope ’s groundbreaking abilities, the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy only appeared as a smooth, ...

This galaxy formed just 930 million years after the Big Bang, offering a rare glimpse into the universe's early years.

Astronomers may have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of forming inside a uniquely shaped galaxy. Astronomers ...