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Images of three candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxies have a similar number of stars as the Milky Way, but they look different: the stars are packed very tightly together. These images are a composite of separate exposures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope using the NIRCam instrument. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology). Image processing: G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copen

Early universe may be ‘teeming’ with bright galaxies, new data reveals
Wed, 02/22/2023
The Milky Way just learned it has a bunch of much older siblings. New data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed that the universe produced star-filled...

Astronomers take a deeper, detailed look at a distant galaxy ‘megacluster’
Wed, 02/15/2023
Say cheese, Pandora. An international team of astronomers, including researchers from Yale, has unveiled the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (...

Leitner observatory re-opens planetarium theater
Mon, 02/06/2023
Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium recently resumed a full schedule of planetarium shows. Stargazing on Science Hill is back at full strength. Yale’s Leitner...

These animated universes are filled with astrophysics
Tue, 01/31/2023
Astronomy Professor, Marla Geha, recently sent her “ASTR 160” students back to the drawing board for some universal truths. While aimed at non-science majors, the lecture...

Seven Yale faculty members named AAAS fellows
Tue, 01/31/2023
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected seven Yale faculty members as part of its latest class of fellows. One of the fellows is Priyamvada...

Pieter van Dokkum honored for developing novel telescope
Fri, 01/13/2023
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum has received the 2023 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the UK-based Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for his development of the Dragonfly Telephoto...

Emma Louden selected to be part of the first cohort of Quad Fellows
Mon, 12/12/2022
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan Congratulates Inaugural Quad Fellows, including Yale Astronomy Graduate Student, Emma Louden. At the second in-person Quad Leaders’...