The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first ...
"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a ...
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.
JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...
For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...
In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...