Our home, the Milky Way galaxy, has a long and fascinating history. It wasn’t always the grand, spiral structure we see today. Instead, it was built up over billions of years through the merging and combining of smaller galaxies. Now, astronomers have made an exciting discovery – they’ve identified what could be the very first […]
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First-ever Observation of a Supermassive Black Hole Preventing Star Creation in a Galaxy at the Dawn of the Universe
A quasar is a compact region powered by a supermassive black hole located at the center of a massive galaxy. They are extremely bright, with a pinpoint appearance similar to stars, and are far away from Earth. Due to their distance and brightness, they allow a glimpse into the conditions of the early Universe, when […]
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James Webb Telescope Shows Most Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Long and Thin, not Spherical or Disk-shaped
Scientists have been using NASA’s space telescope James Webb to learn about galaxies from long ago. Way back then, when the universe was just getting started, most galaxies didn’t look like the spiral shapes we see today. The researchers found that a huge number of early galaxies were thin and flat, like surfboards lying on […]
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The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals New Features Never Seen Before in the Heart of the Milky Way
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed image of Sagittarius C in the Milky Way, revealing star-forming regions and protostars previously unseen, potentially revolutionizing our understanding of star birth.
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Astronomers discover a galaxy that looks a lot like the Milky Way
Using a powerful new telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most faraway barred spiral galaxy that looks like our home Milky Way galaxy. This galaxy formed not too long after the Big Bang, when the universe first began. The galaxy’s name is ceers-2112. It has a bar shape made of […]
