galaxies

Here's How You Could Get Impossibly Large Galaxies in the Early Universe

A study by an Israeli team of astronomers offers a solution to the "impossibly massive" galaxies Webb observed.

5 hours ago

Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago

Did humanity miss the party? Are SETI, the Drake Equation, and the Fermi Paradox all just artifacts of our ignorance…

3 weeks ago

JWST Sees a Galaxy Cluster Coming Together in the Early Universe

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s science goals is to help cosmologists understand how the first galaxies and galaxy…

1 month ago

JWST Sees Merging Galaxies Releasing the Light of a Trillion Suns

If we want to know what it'll look like in about 4.5 billion years when our galaxy merges with Andromeda,…

1 month ago

This JWST Image Shows Gravitational Lensing at its Finest

The latest image release from the James Webb Space Telescope shows another beautiful field filled with galaxies and gravitational lenses

2 months ago

JWST Sees So Many Galaxies, and It's Just Getting Started

Hubble Space Telescope's Deep Field revealed thousands of galaxies in a seemingly empty spot in the sky. Now, the James…

3 months ago

A Distant Galaxy Ate All of its Friends. Now It’s All Alone

An international team of astronomers discovered a "fossil galaxy" that consume its neighbors, the farthest observed to date!

3 months ago

Hubble Sees an Epic Merger of Three Galaxies

When is 50,000 light-years only a small distance? When three galaxies are that close to one another. At that range,…

3 months ago

A New Survey of the Sky Contains Over One Billion Galaxies

What contains a petabyte of data on more than a billion galaxies in one of the most extensive sky maps?…

3 months ago

“The Universe Breakers”: Six Galaxies That are Too Big, Too Early

In the first data taken last summer with the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the new James Webb Space Telescope,…

3 months ago