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Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...
Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...
Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...
Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...
The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago—something never seen before. These observations reveal that galaxies first ...
Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar disk. These disk galaxies ...
An international team of researchers has analyzed 111 JWST images of distant edge-on galaxies, or ones where the alignments ...
The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space ...
Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the ...