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Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
January 30, 2023
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Theory has it that “Population III” stars brought light to the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just glimpsed them.

A panoramic image of the cosmos shows hundreds of galaxies, including four blobs of light that are magnified and labeled with their corresponding redshifts.
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Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Findings

By Rebecca Boyle
January 20, 2023
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Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.

2022 in Review

The Year in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
December 22, 2022
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In a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space telescope takes the cake.

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The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy

By Lyndie Chiou
November 7, 2022
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A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.

Lisa Kaltenegger, a woman with red hair, peers through the eyepiece of an antique telescope.
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A Dream of Discovering Alien Life Finds New Hope

By Joshua Sokol
November 3, 2022
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For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage for an epochal detection.

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Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Photo of an Exoplanet

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
September 1, 2022
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The grainy image of a “super-Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s exoplanet observations ramp up.

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What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key.

By Thomas Lewton
August 23, 2022
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Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together.

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Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy

By Jonathan O'Callaghan
July 25, 2022
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In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter.

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The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born

By Zack Savitsky
July 20, 2022
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Nia Imara is working to understand the mysterious clouds of gas and dust that collapse into stars.


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