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Distant Galaxies

Learn more about the discoveries happening on Maunakea related to distant galaxies and stars — some of the oldest detected objects in the universe.

Discoveries

Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM

Discovery of Brown Dwarf Companion Provides New Insight into Stellar and Planetary Formation and Evolution

Astronomers Discover Hidden Faint Dust-Obscured Galaxies Magnified by Gravitational Lenses

First-of-its-kind ‘Bare-Bones’ Supernova Upends Star Evolution Models

New Record: Keck Observatory Measures Most Distant Galaxy

Earliest Twin Quasars Irradiated Young Universe

International Gemini Observatory and Subaru Combine Forces to Discover First Ever Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn

Record-breaking Fast Radio Burst is Most Distant Ever Detected

Starlight and the First Black Holes: Researchers Detect the Host Galaxies of Quasars in the Early Universe

Cosmic Web Lights Up in the Darkness of Space

On the First Stars to Form in our Galaxy

Dead Star Still Consuming Its Planetary System

Signature of Very Massive First Stars Recorded in a Milky Way Star

Potential First Traces of the Universe’s Earliest Stars

An Uniquely Pristine Cluster Remnant

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