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What is a dead galaxy? Astronomers spot one that stopped forming stars 700M years after Big Bang

What is a dead galaxy? Astronomers spot one that stopped forming stars 700M years after Big Bang

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More than 13 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers have found the most distant galaxy ever seen using the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT), except that this one has already stopped forming stars. The JWST spotted light from this newly discovered ‘dead galaxy’ called RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7,(the Red Unknowns: Bright Infrared Extragalactic Survey). It is said […]

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Why it’s too early to celebrate signs of alien life on K2-18b

Why it’s too early to celebrate signs of alien life on K2-18b

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This new weekly column seeks to bring science into view — its ideas, discoveries, and debates — every Tuesday. We’ll journey through the cosmos, across the quantum world, and alongside the tools that shape our understanding of reality. K2-18b, orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo, is located about 120 light-years away. It […]

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