The astronomers detected 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc" galaxy, located 6.5 billion light years away from our own Milky Way, using NASA's ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers Baffled by Discovery of Ancient Galaxies. The perplexing aspect of these discoveries is the presence of characteristics typically seen in much older, ... “We have confirmed that these ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In the year 1181, something incredible happened in the night sky. A new star appeared and dazzled observers around the world. KHON2.com was able to sit down with Dr. John O ...

Although once invisible to us in the vast reaches of the universe, 39 massive ancient galaxies have been discovered by astronomers using multiple space and ground-based observatories. This is the ...

Webb's first deep field images—infrared recordings of minuscule patches of sky, jam-packed with galaxies—sparked a scramble among astronomers to find the oldest galaxies in view. The Hubble Space ...

Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 / 191016124623.htm. University of Tsukuba.

In doing so, they uncovered nearly 4,000 unknown and ancient galaxies. The research was presented at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science on April 4.

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it spotted a dramatic explosion, a gamma-ray burst that had gone off in the early universe.

Astronomers Found the Ancient Light Source That Literally Turned On the Universe This is what ended the cosmic dark ages and ushered in a new era. By Darren Orf Published: Jul 11, 2024 10:00 AM EDT ...

A global team of astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster, an ancient ball of tightly packed stars. The image is of the second brightest globular cluster ...