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NASA-led infrared space observatory that studies distant galaxies, star and planet formation, and solar system bodies with unprecedented sensitivity.
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Oxford-led astronomers using DESI found 546 bulgeless galaxies with feeding black holes sit on the same black hole-to-stellar mass relation as bulged ones. A bulge usually signals past mergers, so the result favours growth fed by bars and spiral arms, if that proxy holds.
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Naman Bajaj's MIRI survey traces disk winds from molecular to atomic as accretion fades. The sequence looks solid; the calendar that giant-planet models actually need is not in it.
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A Nature Astronomy study of nine ancient galaxies finds faint stars that spectra had missed. The correction runs the wrong way for anyone hoping to explain away impossibly early giants.
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MoM-BH*-1 shows the deepest Balmer break yet measured, which its discoverers read as a 100,000-solar-mass black hole inside a dense gas cocoon 660 million years after the Big Bang.
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A Wisconsin group reports a planet that is mostly rock where theory expects a gas envelope. Its own authors say astronomers cannot finish the composition argument alone.
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An MIT-led team reports in Nature that the object radiates 100 billion times more than any star can, and argues the early universe's "little red dots" are their own class of object.
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