Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...

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This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

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The "Cosmic Grapes" galaxy formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, revealing a never-before-seen structure.

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

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Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...