How astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover 44 new stars in distant galaxy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.
Astronomers discover new galaxy forming in space’s longest ‘tail’
Astronomers, including those from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), discovered a new galaxy in the Leo constellation, forming at the end of the longest tidal tail observed in space, approximately 1.
In "groundbreaking discovery," Webb telescope spots record number of stars in distant galaxy
A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.
How astronomers discovered 44 new stars in a distant galaxy
The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most complex space observatory that serves thousands of astronomers around the world,
NASA’s Webb Telescope Makes History by Discovering 44 Stars in a Galaxy Billions of Light-Years Away
The cosmos is full of secrets waiting to be uncovered, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to reveal them in breathtaking detail. In a monumental achievement, astronomers have used JWST to detect 44 individual stars in a galaxy located 6.
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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 ...
NASA Found a Black Hole Knocked Over on Its Side. That Probably Shouldn't Happen.
This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...
This May Be the Most Distant Well-Defined Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen by Humans
But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...
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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 ...
Swirling galaxy arms, a cosmic sombrero, and a dead supernova: Our favorite JWST images from 2024
NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s ...
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'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo
A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is located roughly 40 million light-years from Earth in the ...
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A new galaxy, much like our own
Stunning new photographs ... a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images -- taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope -- show a ...