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Meet Cloud-9, The Newly Discovered “Starless Galaxy” That's A First-Of-Its-Kind RelicA region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

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Meet Cloud-9, The Newly Discovered “Starless Galaxy” That's A First-Of-Its-Kind RelicA region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.
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Meet Cloud-9, The Newly Discovered “Starless Galaxy” That's A First-Of-Its-Kind Relic

clock-iconJanuary 29, 2026
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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's PastPlatypus galaxies identified in JWST data.

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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's PastPlatypus galaxies identified in JWST data.
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JWST Spots Distant Objects So Odd They Have Been Nicknamed "Platypus Galaxies", 12.6 Billion Years In The Universe's Past

clock-iconJanuary 8, 2026
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Hottest And Earliest Intergalactic Gas Ever Found In A Galaxy Cluster Challenges Our ModelsThe artist impression shows radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster atmosphere illustrating a large thermal reservoir of gas in the nascent cluster.

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Hottest And Earliest Intergalactic Gas Ever Found In A Galaxy Cluster Challenges Our ModelsThe artist impression shows radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot intracluster atmosphere illustrating a large thermal reservoir of gas in the nascent cluster.
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Hottest And Earliest Intergalactic Gas Ever Found In A Galaxy Cluster Challenges Our Models

clock-iconJanuary 5, 2026
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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms

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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Formthe artist impression show a spiral galaxy with sevel large bright clumps located across the arms
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A New View Of The "Cosmic Grapes" Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Form

clock-iconAugust 15, 2025
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.

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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever Found

clock-iconMarch 24, 2025
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Largest Elliptical Galaxies Might Have Formed In Incredible Starburst Eventsthe galaxy is almost featureless just a bright central source that becomes more soofuse as it goes out. A bright blue thing jet is seen cutting across the galaxy like a ribbon

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Largest Elliptical Galaxies Might Have Formed In Incredible Starburst Eventsthe galaxy is almost featureless just a bright central source that becomes more soofuse as it goes out. A bright blue thing jet is seen cutting across the galaxy like a ribbon
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Largest Elliptical Galaxies Might Have Formed In Incredible Starburst Events

clock-iconDecember 5, 2024
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JWST Discovers Another “Beyond Possible” Galaxy And We Have To Rethink EverythingA photo of a field in space with multiple galaxies. At the center a red one is indicated by a green arrow. It shape is very fuzzy

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JWST Discovers Another “Beyond Possible” Galaxy And We Have To Rethink EverythingA photo of a field in space with multiple galaxies. At the center a red one is indicated by a green arrow. It shape is very fuzzy
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JWST Discovers Another “Beyond Possible” Galaxy And We Have To Rethink Everything

clock-iconFebruary 15, 2024
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Our Milky Way Has Eaten 15 Other Galaxies – And It's Still Chomping On One Todayarticle image

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Our Milky Way Has Eaten 15 Other Galaxies – And It's Still Chomping On One Todayarticle image
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Our Milky Way Has Eaten 15 Other Galaxies – And It's Still Chomping On One Today

clock-iconJune 20, 2018

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Astronomers Have Discovered Six Galaxies With No Stars In Themarticle image

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Astronomers Have Discovered Six Galaxies With No Stars In Themarticle image
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Astronomers Have Discovered Six Galaxies With No Stars In Them

clock-iconMay 30, 2018

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Astronomers Have Discovered A Galaxy With No Dark Matter And It's A Huge Dealarticle image

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Astronomers Have Discovered A Galaxy With No Dark Matter And It's A Huge Dealarticle image
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Astronomers Have Discovered A Galaxy With No Dark Matter And It's A Huge Deal

clock-iconMarch 28, 2018

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Astronomers Released An Incredible New Simulation Of The Universearticle image

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Astronomers Released An Incredible New Simulation Of The Universearticle image
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Astronomers Released An Incredible New Simulation Of The Universe

clock-iconFebruary 1, 2018

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Astronomers See Swirling Gas In Some Of The Earliest Galaxiesarticle image

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Astronomers See Swirling Gas In Some Of The Earliest Galaxiesarticle image
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Astronomers See Swirling Gas In Some Of The Earliest Galaxies

clock-iconJanuary 11, 2018

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Astronomers Find New Method To "Read" The History Of Galaxiesarticle image

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Astronomers Find New Method To "Read" The History Of Galaxiesarticle image
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Astronomers Find New Method To "Read" The History Of Galaxies

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How Spin And Star Formation Shape Galactic Dougharticle image

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How Spin And Star Formation Shape Galactic Dougharticle image
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How Spin And Star Formation Shape Galactic Dough

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Photons Couldn’t Easily Escape Ancient Galaxiesarticle image

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Photons Couldn’t Easily Escape Ancient Galaxiesarticle image
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Photons Couldn’t Easily Escape Ancient Galaxies

clock-iconJanuary 11, 2017