After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a samp...
After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features. Principal investigator Haojing Yan compares the discovery to an infamous oddball in another branch of […]
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goddard space flight center
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding...
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide (SiC) produced by aging stars, along with tiny clumps of carbon-based molecules, shows that even […]
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origin & evolution of the universe
james webb space telescope (jwst)
irregular galaxies
galaxies
astrophysics
science
Gwyneth Paltrow has claimed she lost a film role following intense media reaction to her high-profile split from Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, saying the backlash briefly impacted her career.
By stopping fires for generations, the western U.S. may have made its wildfire problem far worse. Wildfires are not always harmful to forests. In many ecosystems, fire helps remove accumulated debr...
By stopping fires for generations, the western U.S. may have made its wildfire problem far worse. Wildfires are not always harmful to forests. In many ecosystems, fire helps remove accumulated debris, returns nutrients to the soil, and supports healthy regeneration. For more than 100 years, the United States has invested billions of dollars in suppressing [...]
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forests
american geophysical union
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