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December 5, 2023

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Astronomers Determine the Age of Three Mysterious Baby Stars at the Heart of the Milky Way

Dec. 5, 2023 — Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-meter telescope in Hawaii, researchers have succeeded in generating new knowledge about three stars at the very heart of the Milky Way. The stars ...

Ghostlike Dusty Galaxy Reappears in James Webb Space Telescope Image

Dec. 1, 2023 — Astronomers studying images from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an object as a 'dusty star-forming galaxy' from nearly 1 billion years after the Big Bang. They have also discovered more than a dozen additional candidates, suggesting ...

10-Billion-Year, 50,000-Light-Year Journey to Black Hole

Dec. 4, 2023 — A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy originated outside of the Galaxy according to a new study. This is the first time a star of extragalactic origin has been found in the vicinity of the super massive black ...

Dark Galactic Region Nicknamed 'The Brick' Explained With Webb Telescope Findings

Dec. 4, 2023 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spot unexpected source of carbon monoxide ice at galactic region surprisingly devoid of ...

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Astronomers Discover Disc Around Star in Another Galaxy

Nov. 29, 2023 — In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a disc around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring ours. It's the first time such a disc, identical to those forming ...

Dwarf Galaxies Use 10-Million-Year Quiet Period to Churn out Stars

Nov. 21, 2023 — If you look at massive galaxies teeming with stars, you might be forgiven in thinking they are star factories, churning out brilliant balls of gas. But actually, less evolved dwarf galaxies have ...

NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

Nov. 21, 2023 — The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to ...

Why the Vast Supergalactic Plane Is Teeming With Only One Type of Galaxy

Nov. 20, 2023 — Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its ...

'Teenage Galaxies' Are Unusually Hot, Glowing With Unexpected Elements

Nov. 20, 2023 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope, CECILIA Survey receives first data from galaxies forming two-to-three billion years after the Big Bang. By examining light from these 33 galaxies, researchers ...

Second-Most Distant Galaxy Discovered Using James Webb Space Telescope

Nov. 13, 2023 — The second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed have been discovered in a region of space known as Pandora's Cluster, or Abell 2744, using data from NASA's James Webb Space ...

Milky Way-Like Galaxy Found in the Early Universe

Nov. 9, 2023 — Astronomers have discovered the most distant barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, that has been observed to ...

Scientists Find 14 New Transient Objects in Space by Peering Through the 'Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster'

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists have discovered 14 new transient objects during their time-lapse study of galaxy cluster MACS0416 -- located about 4.3 billion light years ...

Mystery Resolved: Black Hole Feeding and Feedback at the Center of an Active Galaxy

Nov. 6, 2023 — Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. An international research team has recently observed the Circinus galaxy, ...

Black Holes Are Messy Eaters

Nov. 2, 2023 — New observations down to light-year scale of the gas flows around a supermassive black hole have successfully detected dense gas inflows and shown that only a small portion (about 3 percent) of the ...

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Deep Learning Speeds Up Galactic Calculations

Oct. 25, 2023 — Supernovae, exploding stars, play a critical role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, key aspects of them are notoriously difficult to simulate accurately in reasonably short amounts ...

NASA's Webb Captures an Ethereal View of NGC 346

Oct. 11, 2023 — One of the greatest strengths of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give astronomers detailed views of areas where new stars are being born. The latest example, showcased here ...

Finding Explanation for Milky Way's Warp

Oct. 10, 2023 — Though scientists have long known through observational data that the Milky Way is warped and its edges are flared like a skirt, no one could explain why. Now, astronomers have performed the first ...

Stellar Fountain of Youth With Turbulent Formation History in the Center of Our Galaxy

Oct. 10, 2023 — An unexpectedly high number of young stars has been identified in the direct vicinity of a supermassive black hole and water ice has been detected at the center of our ...

Plot Thickens in Hunt for Ninth Planet

Oct. 5, 2023 — A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity ...

Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn

Oct. 3, 2023 — In the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, the young galaxies appear too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the ...

New Proof for Black Hole Spin

Sep. 27, 2023 — The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87, made famous by the first picture of a black hole shadow, has yielded another first: the jet shooting out from the black hole has been confirmed ...

Hidden Supermassive Black Holes Reveal Their Secrets Through Radio Signals

Sep. 25, 2023 — Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced in extremely bright ...

Astronomers Discover Newborn Galaxies With the James Webb Space Telescope

Sep. 22, 2023 — With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created. ...

Astronomers Find Abundance of Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe, Rewriting Cosmic Evolution Theories

Sep. 22, 2023 — Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster

Sep. 20, 2023 — An international research team has used the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to observe the most distant galaxy protocluster to date, 13.14 billion ...

Brilliant Galaxies of Early Universe

Sep. 15, 2023 — Scientists have used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey to change the way we think about the universe and its distant ...

Matter Comprises of 31% of the Total Amount of Matter and Energy in the Universe

Sep. 13, 2023 — One of the most interesting and important questions in cosmology is, 'How much matter exists in the universe?' An international team has now succeeded in measuring the total amount of ...

Discovery of Two Potential Polar Ring Galaxies Suggests These Stunning Rare Clusters Might Be More Common Than Previously Believed

Sep. 13, 2023 — These new detections suggest polar ring galaxies might be more common than previously ...

Dark Matter Halos Measured Around Ancient Quasars

Sep. 12, 2023 — At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Beyond a certain size, these become active, emitting huge amounts of radiation, and are then called quasars. It is thought these are ...

The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth

Sep. 11, 2023 — As the universe evolves, scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would grow ...

Ravenous Black Hole Consumes Three Earths'-Worth of Star Every Time It Passes

Sep. 7, 2023 — Massive burst of X-rays detected by astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole. They observed a star like our own Sun being eaten away every time it ...

Furthest Ever Detection of a Galaxy's Magnetic Field

Sep. 6, 2023 — Astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was just 2.5 billion years ...

Vast Bubble of Galaxies Discovered, Given Hawaiian Name

Sep. 5, 2023 — The immense bubble is 820 million light years from Earth and believed to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the ...

Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

Aug. 9, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years ...

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