Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the ...
Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major theoretical ...
Unexpected cosmic find: Webb identified an early-universe galaxy with no rotation, a trait normally seen in much older systems. Challenging galaxy models: The discovery contradicts expectations that ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...
Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar ...