Bright Galaxies of the Early Universe Defy Expectations, Sending Astronomers Back to the Drawing Board
New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...
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12 Billion-Year-Old Massive Spiral Galaxy Found by Webb Telescope
The James Webb Telescope has spotted a massive spiral galaxy, and its extreme age could challenge current understanding of ...
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James Webb telescope uncovers massive 'grand design' spiral galaxy in the early universe — and scientists can't explain how it got so big, so fast
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
New research challenges dark matter theory in galaxy formation
He says a theory known as MOND, for Modified Newtonian Dynamics, predicted in 1998 that structure formation in the early ...
History Made As Webb Telescope Finds 44 Stars Near Big Bang — Here’s How It Did It
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...
The carbon in our bodies probably feft the galaxy and came back on cosmic 'conveyer belt'
Star-made atoms cycle through giant galactic currents in space, forming a cosmic conveyor belt that returns material to ...
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Massive 'Grand Design' Spiral Galaxy Found Just a Billion Years After Big Bang
"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...
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Supermassive black holes halt rapid construction in an ancient celestial city
Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of ... by which these giant elliptical galaxies halt star formation remains debated, one theory predicts that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) could play a ...
Astronomers discovered 44 ancient stars using gravitational lensing—an astrophysicist explains how they did it
A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...
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Part of Your Body Has Likely Traveled Outside the Galaxy, Scientist Says
The carbon that is a key component of the human body—and all other lifeforms on Earth—may have traveled outside the galaxy after ... cycle of star and planet formation." The results—based ...
New "Kiss-and-Capture" Theory Explains Pluto's Formation of Largest Moon, Charon
A new theory has emerged to explain how Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, billions of years ago through a unique "kiss-and-capture" collision. The process, proposed by researchers, ...