Part of Your Body Has Likely Traveled Outside the Galaxy, Scientist Says
Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.
Astronomers discover new galaxy forming in space’s longest ‘tail’
Astronomers, including those from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), discovered a new galaxy in the Leo ...
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James Webb telescope uncovers massive 'grand design' spiral galaxy in the early universe — and scientists can't explain how it got so big, so fast
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...
How astronomers used gravitational lensing to discover 44 new stars in distant galaxy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...
This May Be the Most Distant Well-Defined Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen by Humans
But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...
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4K Cartwheel Galaxy Views Via Hubble Space Telescope
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...
Carbon in our bodies likely left galaxy and came back on cosmic 'conveyer belt'
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...
What Is a Galaxy?
Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.
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You’re made of carbon that once roamed in a halo outside our galaxy
For the first time, a new study confirms that circumgalactic medium (CGM) doesn’t just contain “hot gases enriched in oxygen” ...