galaxies
The Early Universe Should Be Awash in Active Galaxies, but JWST Isn't Finding Them
Astronomers have found supermassive black holes in the centers of most galaxies. To get the black holes we see today,…
This Distant Galaxy Cluster is Totally Relaxed, Unharassed for a Billion Years
In the span of a human lifetime, much of the Universe seems unchanging. But that's an illusion; things are always…
What Would the Milky Way Look Like From Afar?
Even though we're embedded inside the Milky Way, we don't know precisely what our galaxy looks like. Astronomers have had…
JWST Glimpses the Cosmic Dawn of the Universe
Thanks to the JWST, galaxies that existed during the Cosmic Dawn have been observed for the first time!
JWST Shows How the Early Universe Was Furiously Forming Stars
We can gaze out into regions in our neighbourhood of the Milky Way and find orgies of star birth. The…
JWST Sees Organic Molecules Ludicrously Far Away
When astronomers used the JWST to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light years away, they were also…
The Latest JWST Image Pierces Through a Shrouded Star-Forming Galaxy
Sometimes an image is so engrossing that we can ignore what it's telling us about its subject and just enjoy…
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.
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…
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…