When you gaze up at the night sky, you’re looking back in time. Light from the stars takes years, sometimes millennia, to ...

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

A newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, seen as it existed 8.5 billion years ago, is challenging assumptions about conditions in the early universe. Astrophysicists at the University of Waterloo have ide ...

A newly discovered galaxy with glowing star-filled "tentacles" is rewriting parts of cosmic history.

Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxies are named for the long, tentacle-like streams ...

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous ‘tentacles’ in a galaxy cluster at redshift of 1.156, meaning we’re seeing it as it was ...