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James Webb pushing the boundaries

3 February 2026
Astronomy

The story is at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/webb-galaxy-challenges-early-universe/ … the James Webb space telescope has spotted a galaxy just 280 million years after Big Bang – shrinking the boundary once again. It is an unexpectedly bright and chemically rich  galaxy – and one of the earliest ever discovered, it would seem. It exists just behind the veil of the cosmic dawn – a place where early stars are thought to have begun to shine through hydrogen fog left behind by Big Bang. A theoretical idea, of course. It is the luminosity of the galaxy that surprised astronomers – not simply its existence. Such discoveries, we are told, will force astronomers to reevaluate their model of the early universe.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/01/jupiter-saturn-polar-vortex-study/ … Jupiter and Saturn are similar in size and made of similar gases  but their poles differ. Saturn’s north pole is home to a single massive hexagonal vortex. Jupiter’s north pole is a chaotic jumble of cyclones. Using fluid simulations we are told the structures of the polar storms is due to what lies beneath the  vortexes. Interesting read.

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