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'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claimsThe James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales, according to a team of astronomers.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious 'red monster' galaxies so large they shouldn't existThe James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.
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How many galaxies orbit the Milky Way?The number of known galaxies circling the Milky Way is increasing as we develop new powerful telescopes.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cannonball galaxy' blasting through spaceThe Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
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The Milky Way could be part of a much larger 'cosmic neighborhood' than we realized, challenging our understanding of the universeA probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed.
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Space photo of the week: Entangled galaxies form cosmic smiley face in new James Webb telescope imageA new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
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The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope imageThe Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation.
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What??? James Webb telescope finds giant question mark in spaceAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic question mark thanks to a rare form of gravitational lensing.
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The James Webb telescope found hundreds of 'little red dots' in the ancient universe. We still don't know what they are.These small galaxies are either crammed with stars or they host gigantic black holes. The data astronomers have collected continues to puzzle them.
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