When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the ...

Astronomers first thought these red dots were ancient galaxies. They appeared unusually mature for their early universe age.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming ...