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Introducing ‘UFO’ Galaxies—the Milky Way’s Dustier Cousins

Introducing 'UFO' galaxies—the Milky Way's dustier cousins
Images of the same regions of space as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This bright-red UFO galaxy, circled, was almost entirely invisible in the Hubble observations. Credit: Gibson et al, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal
Images of the same region of space as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This bright-red UFO galaxy, circled, was almost entirely invisible in the Hubble observations. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists led by CU Boulder has set out to unravel the mysteries of UFOs—not the alien spacecraft, but a class of unusually large and red galaxies that researchers have nicknamed Ultra-red Flattened Objects, or UFOs for short...

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