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NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

January 28, 2026

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries…

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Spacecraft components configured for testing rest on a table.

January 28, 2026

Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…

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AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

January 27, 2026

A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived…

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January 24, 2026

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration is releasing results that, for the first time, combine all six years…

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January 19, 2026

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of…

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$Image shows a large spiral galaxy that that has a bright white center, with several lanes of reddish-brown dust and gas in between faint white arms. The galaxy takes up the center third of the frame. There are several thousand stars, some with diffraction spikes, scattered around the image. This image is labeled Hubble. A small box outlining an area at the center of the galaxy leads a pullout square at the top right. The image, labeled Webb, is dark with a white glowing oval at the center.$

January 13, 2026

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues…

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Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star

January 12, 2026

Press Release 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with…

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A region of space is filled with stars and clumps of glowing orange and tan dust. A small portion of the sky at the center of the image is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corner of the box to the inset panel at the top right showing a magnified version of the outlined portion of the image. In the inset, there are smatterings of dim whitish-blueish stars and about seven glowing red orbs across the center in a line. Also across the center of the inset is a green glow. The background of the image is filled with stars and galaxies of various shapes and colors.

January 7, 2026

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy…

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James Webb Space Telescope image showing a broad area of space with many small galaxies, four of which are highlighted in pull-out boxes. The four highlighted galaxies are very small, appearing as points of light. Black areas of the overall image indicate where the telescope did not collect data - a vertical section in the center and a square in the lower left corner.

January 6, 2026

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…

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A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

January 5, 2026

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…

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$This release features a composite image of a galaxy cluster first discovered on New Year's Eve day, 2020. The cluster appears here as a large collection of brilliant white lights, each a distinct galaxy. A neon purple cloud stretches across the cluster's crowded core. Many of the hundred-plus galaxies in the cluster are in two clumps of galaxies towards the top and bottom of center. Some are encircled by a faint glowing haze, while a few foreground stars gleam with diffraction spikes. Some of the smaller galaxies are tinted blue, orange, or red, and some appear more oblong than round, suggesting spiral shapes viewed edge-on. The neon purple cloud sits at the heart of the image, surrounding the most densely-packed part of the cluster. This cloud, which spreads vertically across the cluster, is multimillion-degree gas observed by Chandra. The two clumps of observable galaxies, and the spread of superheated gas, reveal that the Champagne Cluster is in fact two clusters in the process of colliding. With the two clusters of sparkling light clinking together, and the auspicious discovery date, astronomers have dubbed the merged cosmic structure "The Champagne Cluster".$

December 30, 2025

Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s…

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Space scientists’ cosmic calendar has 12 out-of-this-world wonders | Northwest & National News

December 26, 2025

This Hubble image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds in the outskirts of a star-forming region called…

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware

AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands

JWST found a ‘dead’ galaxy that quit making stars billions of years ago

NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy

Astronomers surprised by mysterious shock wave around dead star

NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

NASA’s Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster

Space scientists’ cosmic calendar has 12 out-of-this-world wonders | Northwest & National News