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Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe

By |2025-12-24T15:44:26-05:00December 24th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe. Although extremely faint, LRDs are now frequently identified in deep observations made for other purposes. A wide-ranging debate is raging [...]

M41: The Little Beehive Star Cluster

By |2025-02-25T08:09:15-05:00February 25th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Why are there so many bright blue stars? Stars are usually born in clusters, and the brightest and most massive of these stars typically glow blue. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder to see. A few bright orange-appearing red [...]

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