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The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.
Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...
The Sculptor Galaxy is among the closest massive star-forming galaxies to our own Milky Way, lying just 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere’s constellation Sculptor.
The Sculptor galaxy lies 11 million light-years from the Milky Way. This may sound unfathomably far, but it actually makes Sculptor one of the closest galaxies to Earth.
The James Webb Space Telescope set its sights on a galaxy 20 million light-years away, capturing a dazzling star-forming galaxy in images streaked with the signature of passing asteroids.
Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to zero in on a dwarf galaxy that suddenly started making stars after a billions-of-years-long pause.
By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that ...