JWST initially identified these three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0) as galaxies in December 2022. Now a team suggests they might be “dark stars,” theoretical objects powered by particles of dark matter annihilating. Credit: NASA/ESA We don’t just find new stars by looking for long periods of time for things that suddenly change in new and unusual ways… although I have to admit I’m partial to all those stars that flicker and flare and vary in the night. We also find new kinds of stars by looking fainter than ever before. Not everything is bright and not...

This deep galaxy field from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera shows an arrangement of 10 distant galaxies (white circles) in a diagonal. NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang/University of Arizona and Joseph DePasquale/STScI Currently, a lot of the research we see coming from JWST is...

Before we go to break, I want to highlight one more piece of news. In a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers Geraint Lewis and Brendon Brewer show evidence for time appearing to tick slower in the early universe. According to relativity, as our...