Hey, look, nature is the one creating the circumstances for these analogies. I’m just pointing them out.
At a redshift of 15, that would be trouble for our understanding of the Universe. But it might just be a closer galaxy trying to fool us.
These are the most distant stellar clusters ever seen
The collapsed roof of a lunar lava tube hints at what may become a future astronaut habitat
JWST images pick up three of the little buggers
The magnificent globular cluster Omega Centauri’s stars give away the presence of the black hole
A new kind of object astronomers spotted is like a galaxy, but is amazingly low on stars
They’re ancient remnants of stars from galaxies our own galaxy ate
Answer: Pretty danged hard. Also: The origin story of ultra compact dwarf galaxies.
It’s a weird galaxy, but it may be even weirder than we thought
Combining images from Hubble and JWST provides an incredible view of a gorgeous galaxy cluster
Newsletter news, and more evidence that we’re starting to understand globular clusters