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The stunning image that Webb produced shows newly formed stars in the outer galaxy emitting jets of material in all directions, set against a backdrop of a sea of galaxies and red clouds of gas.

This unprecedented detail highlights the dynamic process and provides new data on the formation and evolution of stars at the outer edges of our galaxy. Since its launch, the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense cosmic clouds containing clusters of stars. In unprecedented ...

NASA scientists running the James Webb Space Telescope this week unveiled new photos of two galaxies dubbed the Penguin and ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ... including the relative abundance of stars of various masses within Extreme Outer Galaxy star clusters.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...

Researchers at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying ...

An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else ...