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Webb discovered Ethanol and other icy ingredients around two protostars

Newfound carbon-containing molecules are key ingredients.

Study suggests that the earth may have once been flat

Did young planets just get smartie-er?

Astronomers figured out how to measure the speed of dark matter

Lopsided galaxies shed light on the speed of dark matter.

Almost invisible dwarf galaxy challenges the dark matter model

The largest and most diffuse galaxy known.

Astronomers detected three iron rings in a planet-forming disk

A three-ringed structure in the nursery of planets.

A giant and extremely faint stream of stars spotted between galaxies

This line is ten times as long as our Milky Way.

Webb and Hubble united to create the most colorful view of the universe

The result: a vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newly found time-varying objects.

Black hole mass measured from its motion

A truly astounding mass concentration!

Shooting stars discovered on the Sun’s corona

A never-before-seen ‘falling star’-type phenomena revealed.

Astronomers have uncovered the strange behaviour of a pulsar

With a remarkable observational campaign that involved 12 telescopes both on the ground and in space, including three European Southern Observatory (ESO) facilities, astronomers...

A new image of a galaxy cluster revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before

Webb spotlights gravitational arcs in ‘El Gordo’ galaxy cluster.

Early, low-metallicity universe is fundamentally different from our own galaxy

Hubble, U-M astronomers pioneer study of massive stars.

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