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A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

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New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

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The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.