Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...
On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
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An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...
Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...
Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...
Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.
A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...