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‘Early universe is nothing we expected’: James Webb telescope reveals ‘new understanding’ of how galaxies formed at cosmic dawn

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of The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what may be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST spotted the five proto-globular clusters – bundles of millions of stars bound together by gravity – within the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after Big Bang. The Cosmic Gems … Read more

Astronomers think they have figured out how and when Jupiter’s Red Spot formed

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Larger / Juno’s enhanced image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in 2018. It’s likely not the same one observed by Cassini in the 1600s. The planet Jupiter is particularly known for the so-called Great Red Spot, a swirling vortex in the gas giant’s atmosphere that has existed since at least 1831. But how it formed … Read more