New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...
A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...
In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...
Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...
The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...
A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...
From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...
The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as it was more than 13 billion years ago, reveals a level of star making so ...
Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...
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