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Tag: galaxies

"A “Jellyfish” Galaxy Swims Into View" by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
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Characterizing galaxies at “cosmic noon”

Posted on May 18, 2026April 27, 2026 by Ben Pauley

Astronomers studied 3 galaxies that formed 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang to calculate how much gas, stars, and dark matter they…

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    NASA’s Webb Uncovers Star Formation in Cluster’s Dusty Ribbons, NGC 346 (NIRCam)
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    JWST reveals properties of dusty star-forming galaxies

    Posted on February 26, 2026February 4, 2026 by Sciworthy

    Astronomers used new JWST data to unravel the structures of 22 dusty star-forming galaxies that previous telescopes couldn’t see.

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      Astronomers model early star clusters

      Posted on November 17, 2025November 3, 2025 by Ben Pauley

      Scientists used computer simulations to determine how ancient star clusters formed. Their results were similar to real clusters found with…

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        How did early galaxies form?

        Posted on October 27, 2025October 16, 2025 by Ben Pauley

        Astronomers observed a distant, ancient galaxy and found that it consisted of 5 distinct regions, suggesting a complex formation history…

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          Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
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          How do small galaxies get magnetic fields?

          Posted on September 22, 2025August 28, 2025 by Ben Pauley

          Astronomers showed that small galaxies orbiting larger galaxies become 2 to 8 times more magnetic after nearing their hosts.

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            Fermi Sees the Gamma Ray Sky
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            Where do deep-space gamma-rays come from?

            Posted on September 8, 2025August 18, 2025 by Ben Pauley

            Researchers found that distant star-forming galaxies can only account for about half of the high-energy radiation from outside the Milky Way…

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              Galaxy Cluster Abell 370
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              Galactic clusters impact star formation

              Posted on August 25, 2025August 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

              Researchers used light emissions to reconstruct the evolution of galaxies that fall into clusters in deep space.

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                Scientists date star columns at the center of galaxies

                Posted on July 24, 2025July 10, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                Researchers used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to study dense columns of stars at the center of 20 nearby galaxies. They found…

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                  This rendering shows a snapshot from a cosmological simulation of a Lyman-alpha Blob similar to LAB-1. This simulation tracks the evolution of gas and dark matter using one of the latest models for galaxy formation running on the NASA Pleiades supercomputer. This view shows the distribution of gas within the dark matter halo, colour coded so that cold gas (mainly neutral hydrogen) appears red and hot gas appears white. Embedded at the centre of this system are two strongly star-forming galaxies, but these are surrounded by hot gas and many smaller satellite galaxies that appear as small red clumps of gas here. Lyman-alpha photons escape from the central galaxies and scatter off the cold gas associated with these satellites to give rise to an extended Lyman-alpha Blob.
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                  Astronomers find distant galaxies with neural networks

                  Posted on April 7, 2025June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                  Researchers developed a computer algorithm that correctly predicted the light emission characteristics of ancient faraway galaxies based on…

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                    Why do galaxies shrink?

                    Posted on October 21, 2024June 25, 2025 by Ben Pauley

                    An astronomer studying the 3 main processes that cause galaxies to lose mass found that the dominant process depends on the size and age of…

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