Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of ... in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope detected eight of those rings, and data ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Major, this barred spiral ...

“When light from a distant galaxy travels through space on its way to Earth it typically travels on a straight path,” he said. “But if a massive object like another galaxy gets in the ...

The team studied Leo P using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which imaged the dwarf galaxy with the instrument's Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. By observing the galaxy in infrared light ...

One such galaxy is an irregular dwarf galaxy called ... Although first discovered in 2013, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that Leo P is unexpectedly forming ...