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Astronomers find bizarre 'Cosmic Grapes' galaxy in the early universe. Here's why that's a big deal (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson Partner Content Created With Space. published

A distant galaxy nicknamed "Cosmic Grapes" is bursting with massive star-forming clumps — far more than expected — offering fresh clues about how galaxies grew in the early universe.

Nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST.

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week

By Jamie Carter published

Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.

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This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) of star-forming region NGC 604 shows how stellar winds from bright, hot young stars carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.

James Webb telescope reveals 'Sleeping Beauty' galaxies in the early universe — snoozing where they weren't supposed to exist

By Shreejaya Karantha published

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to understanding how early galaxies grow.

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Whooo's there? James Webb telescope spots rare 'Cosmic Owl'

By Abha Jain published

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an "exceptional natural laboratory" for studying how galaxies evolve.

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James Webb telescope discovers tentacled 'jellyfish' galaxy swimming through deep space

By Perri Thaler published

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy evolution and star formation.

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An illustration of double hot Jupiters orbiting a distant star

Astronomers discover origins of mysterious double hot Jupiter exoplanets: 'It is a dance of sorts'

By Robert Lea Partner Content Created With Space. published

Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right."

Farthest 'mini-halo' ever detected could improve our understanding of the early universe

By Perri Thaler published

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that could reveal unexpected insights about the ancient universe.

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6 incredible objects hidden in Vera C. Rubin Observatory's mind-boggling first image

By Brandon Specktor published

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the Virgo Cluster. Here are six stunning sights hidden throughout the mind-boggling image.

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an image of a swirling galaxy in purple and orange shades

Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen

By Robert Lea Partner Content Created With Space. published

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.

James Webb telescope spots tiny galaxies that may have transformed the universe

By Skyler Ware published

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

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