Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Galaxy Living Too Fast

The Cigar Galaxy seen here with data from both Hubble and James Webb (Credit : NASA/ESA/CSA)

Twelve million light years away, a galaxy is living fast and burning bright, forging new stars ten times quicker than our own Milky Way in a frenzy that cannot possibly last. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has cut clean through its veil of dust to count an astonishing 16.5 million of its stars, one by one. So what is driving the Cigar Galaxy to burn so furiously?



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