Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Webb’s sharper vision has revealed many disk-shaped galaxies from the early universe, and now, a small but growing number of ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

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The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

Star chemistry reveals two spiral arms and a faint bridge in the Milky Way, offering a clearer view of hidden structure in ...

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A new study using Auriga simulations explains the Milky Way’s chemical bimodality. Stars split into magnesium-rich and iron-rich sequences, revealing multiple evolutionary paths shaping our galaxy.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been revealed by a new ...