Cosmic Downpour at the Dawn of Time
There is something wildly generous about a garden where the first flowers don't just bloom but immediately scatter their seeds far beyond the fence. Something similar was happening in the young universe.
Dust Chronicles of Catastrophes: JWST Reveals Secrets of Planetary Smash-ups
Around some young stars where star formation has recently ended, there swirl not just dust rings but actual planetary battlefields — extreme debris disks.
A Chick in a Dust Shell: How a Red Quasar Emerges
In the deep field of JWST, among thousands of galaxies, astronomers zoomed in on the source JADES-GS 209777 – and saw a cosmic chick. Its "shell" is a thick cocoon of gas and cosmic dust that long hid the growing black hole at its center. But at a redshift of 3,711 (1,8 billion years after the Big Bang), the shell began to crack.