Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
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James Webb discovered massive galaxies that astronomers say shouldn’t exist
Instead of these large, hulking early galaxies that Webb observed, scientists expected there to be smaller and younger types of galaxies for that particular time period. Of course, this wouldn’t ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
Galaxies come in a very wide range of sizes ... 2.5 million light years – by not realizing there were two different types of Cepheid variables. His measurements marked the end of the Great ...
Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Dwarf galaxy discovery forces rethink of cosmic evolution
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...
'Weird' Ancient Galaxy Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time. This galaxy, named ...
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Astronomers find abundance of Milky Way-like galaxies in early Universe, rewriting cosmic evolution theories
These galaxies are thought to be the most common in the nearby Universe and might be the types of galaxies where life can develop given the nature of their formation history. However, astronomers ...