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Webb and Hubble Show Massive Star Clusters Break Free Faster

The finding offers a new yardstick for models of how stars shape galaxies.

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Webb Reveals Non-Rotating Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Hubble Marks 36 Years With New Trifid Nebula Image Showing Change

Hubble Marks 36 Years With Sharper Trifid Nebula Portrait That Shows Change

Astronomers Reconstruct NGC 1365’s 12-Billion-Year Past With Extragalactic Archaeology

Second Forming Planet Confirmed in WISPIT 2 Disk

ALMA Team Releases Largest Radio Map of the Milky Way’s Core

ALMA Unveils Record 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Turbulent Core

ALMA Unveils 650-Light-Year Mosaic of the Milky Way’s Core, Revealing a Dense Filament Web

Hubble Unveils Clearest Image Yet of the Egg Nebula

JWST Sees Protostar Forge Crystals in Outbursts, Then Hurl Them to Comet-Building Zones

Precessing Black Hole Jet in VV 340a Drives Vast Outflow in Young Disk Galaxy

Nature Study Weighs Four Young V1298 Tau Planets, Revealing Ultra‑Low Densities

Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away

JWST Reveals Pulsar-Orbiting ‘Lemon’ Planet With Helium–Carbon Atmosphere

Webb Spots Unexplained UV Around Five Protostars in Ophiuchus

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

Astronomers Unveil Largest Low-Frequency Radio Color Map of the Milky Way

JWST Finds Five Complex Organic Ices Around a Protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Gaia Maps 'Great Wave' Rolling Through the Milky Way's Outer Disk