Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But ...
Why it matters: Scientists say the punctuation-shaped object appears to be two or more galaxies merging — the intense process through which galaxies collide (the Milky Way itself is the byproduct of ...
Close scrutiny of a recent image from the Webb Space Telescope revealed some questionable punctuation. By Dennis Overbye The astronomers will tell you it is just an optical illusion, a pair of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...