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JWST spots the earliest sign yet of a distant galaxy reshaping its cosmic environs

May 23, 2025 by Blake Calder

Several blurry galaxies of various sizes and shapes on a black background in this image from the JWST. In the center, a small red dot marks the most distant galaxy in this field, JADES-GS-z13-1.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a distant galaxy blowing an unexpected bubble in the gas around it, just 330 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, dubbed …

New baby pictures of the universe deepen a cosmic mystery

May 23, 2025 by Blake Calder

A high-altitude observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile, surrounded by an arid landscape with distant mountains under a deep blue sky. The facility consists of a large, circular telescope structure and a few small buildings.

The clearest pictures yet of the newborn cosmos strengthen the prevailing model of the universe but deepen a mystery about its expansion rate. Measurements of this rate, known as the …