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Strange cosmic objects spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope may be baby 'platypus' galaxies — or something entirely new

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Strange new cosmic object spotted and astronomers are on cloud-9

Astronomers have identified a strange new object in deep space, a vast cloud that looks like a galaxy stripped of its stars.

'Platypus' objects in the early universe look like stars but behave like galaxies

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...
Columbia Daily Tribune on MSN

MU scientists find new galaxy type with NASA’s James Webb telescope

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...
Business Times

Scientists Reassess Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS After Unusual Geometry and Extreme Speeds Detected

Scientists are reexamining long-held assumptions about interstellar objects after new observations of 3I/ATLAS, only the ...
AOL

A Strange Object Has Entered Our Solar System—and One Scientist Says It May Be an Alien Craft

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Unusual behavior of interstellar object 31/ATLAS prompts fascination, conspiracies

NATIONWIDE — ASTRONOMERS ARE WATCHING in fascination as massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has accelerated due to unexplained “non-gravitational” forces as it approaches the sun. The unusual ...