Discovered in the Pictor II dwarf galaxy, star PicII-503 has an extreme deficiency in iron—less than 1/40,000th of the sun.
It is located about 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
JWST Captures a Weird “Jellyfish” Galaxy With Trailing Tentacles of Baby Stars in the Early Universe
The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity ...
Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...
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X-ray spacecraft watches monster black hole wake up and fire cosmic bullets at starburst galaxy
The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.
Scientists believe this long stream of gas may have formed when several galaxies collided millions of years ago.
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