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Untangling the cosmic web

There is a pattern found in nature. It is indeed the largest pattern there is. It is so vast that it spans the universe, filling up its observable volume. The pattern is made of individual units in ...
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NASA’s Webb Identifies The Earliest Strands Of The Cosmic Web

Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope spots a giant ‘cosmic question mark’ in the heart of a distant galaxy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured images of a distant galaxy that is forming a peculiar cosmic structure resembling a question mark. This observation, revealed in a study published ...
Phys.org

Three years of science: Ten cosmic surprises from NASA's Webb telescope

Since July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and analyze otherwise invisible infrared light, Webb is making ...
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Astronomers produce most detailed map of the cosmic web

A slice through the COSMOS-Web cosmic-web map, showing galaxies across nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history. The vertex on the left marks the present day; moving outward, each galaxy is placed at ...