Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

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When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

A rare jellyfish galaxy discovered by JWST is offering clues about how galaxies died in the early universe.

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

A rare jellyfish-like galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges what science knew about early galactic evolution.

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a rare 'jellyfish galaxy', 8.5 billion light-years away, undergoing a process of cosmic stripping.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a rare “jellyfish galaxy” 8.5 billion light-years away, with long gas tentacles formed by cosmic stripping. This sighting suggests ...

Eight examples for jellyfish galaxies. Images like these are presented to the participants of the new Zooniverse project for classification. IllustrisTNG collaboration Galaxies come in all sorts of ...

Researchers have detected ultra-low radio frequencies being emitted from a jellyfish-shaped object in a distant galaxy cluster. “We looked at the data, and as we turned down the frequency, we saw a ...