Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide (SiC) produced by aging stars, along with tiny clumps of carbon-based molecules, shows that even […]
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Astrophysics, Galaxies, Irregular Galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Origin & Evolution of the Universe, Science & Research, The Universe
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January 6, 2026
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