Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded ...

Just in time for the 4th of July, the space telescope captures celestial show. — -- The Hubble Space Telescope captured a celestial fireworks show in a miniature galaxy, coming just in time for ...

A dwarf galaxy 100 million light years away is being stripped of its crucial star-forming gas, and it seems that the cosmic ...

The supernova was the death of a red supergiant star 500 times larger than the sun, in a galaxy just 22 million light-years ...

For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...