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COSMOS-Web Releases Deepest Yet View Into the Universe
Over 250 hours of observations from the world’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, are freely available to the public.

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Vast Molecular Cloud Discovered Near Our Solar System
One of the largest single structures in the sky, the cloud is about 40 moons across, but not visible to the unaided eye.

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UT Astronomer Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula
Postdoctoral researcher Matthew De Furio led the research that found the smallest brown dwarfs in the nebula.

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Newfound Galaxy Class May Indicate Early Black Hole Growth
Many galaxies known as little red dots (LRDs) appear to harbor growing supermassive black holes.

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Astronomers Discover Youngest Transiting Planet Ever
The planet, named TIDYE-1b, is roughly the size of Jupiter and is an estimated 3 million years old.

UT Astronomers Find JWST Data Conflicts with Reionization Models
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope spawned a new tension around when a major change in the universe happened.

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UT Astronomers Race To Capture Image of Exoplanet Near Star
Brendan Bowler was part of a team to help find the lowest-mass/closest-to-its-host-star distant planet ever found.

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Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles
Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected.

Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All
It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries.

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Astronomers Use AI to Find Elusive Stars 'Gobbling Up' Planets
The work reveals what planets outside our solar system are made of.
