Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Kristen McQuinn Most small galaxies that stopped making ...

This pattern, discovered in a galaxy called Leo P, is providing astronomers at Rutgers University with new insights into how the earliest and smallest galaxies managed to survive the universe’s ...

The Ancient Star Formation History of the Extremely Low-mass Galaxy Leo P: An Emerging Trend of a Post-reionization Pause in Star Formation. The Astrophysical Journal , 2024; 976 (1): 60 DOI: 10. ...

Astronomers have unveiled a fascinating cosmic discovery in Leo constellation. A young ultra-diffuse galaxy is forming at the tip of the longest tidal tail ever recorded. This celestial structure ...

Leo P, a dwarf galaxy some 5.3 million light years from Earth, was discovered by McQuinn and other scientists in 2013. The celestial structure is far enough away from the Local Group, a clump of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual star-forming timeline of dwarf galaxy Leo P.