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    Analysis of the JWST/NIRSpec spectrum of the recently observed Lyman-break galaxy JADES-GS+53.15508-27.80178 revealed a redshift of z = 7.3, a Balmer break and a complete absence of nebular emission lines, indicating that quenching occurred only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

    • Tobias J. Looser
    • , Francesco D’Eugenio
    •  & Jan Scholtz

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    An analysis of eight ultra-faint galaxies during the epoch of reionization with absolute magnitudes between −17 mag and −15  mag shows that most of the photons that reionized the Universe come from dwarf galaxies.

    • Hakim Atek
    • , Ivo Labbé
    •  & Katherine E. Whitaker

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    JWST/NIRSpec observations of Abell2744-QSO1 show a high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in the early Universe, which indicates that we are seeing the black hole in a phase of rapid growth, accreting at 30% of the Eddington limit.

    • Lukas J. Furtak
    • , Ivo Labbé
    •  & Christina C. Williams

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    A massive galaxy observed with the JWST indicates that the bulk of its stars formed within the first 500 million years of the Universe.

    • Karl Glazebrook
    • , Themiya Nanayakkara
    •  & Angel Chandro-Gomez

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    An extensive analysis of the JWST-NIRSpec spectrum of GN-z11 shows a supermassive black hole of a few million solar masses in a galaxy 440 million years after the Big Bang.

    • Roberto Maiolino
    • , Jan Scholtz
    •  & Fengwu Sun

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    We report observations of ceers-2112 that show that this galaxy, at a redshift of 3, unexpectedly has a barred spiral structure.

    • Luca Costantin
    • , Pablo G. Pérez-González
    •  & L. Y. Aaron Yung

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     In the Virgo galaxy cluster, we identified a continuum of objects that maps the morphological transition between nucleated dwarf galaxies and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs), providing evidence for the formation of UCDs through tidal stripping of ancient dwarf galaxies.

    • Kaixiang Wang
    • , Eric W. Peng
    •  & Mingcheng Zhu

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    Linearly polarized thermal emission from dust grains in a strongly lensed, intrinsically luminous galaxy forming stars at a rate more than 1,000 times that of the Milky Way is detected.

    • J. E. Geach
    • , E. Lopez-Rodriguez
    •  & K. E. K. Coppin

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    We show that void galaxies have had slower star formation histories than galaxies in denser large-scale environments and find two main types of star formation history in all environments.

    • Jesús Domínguez-Gómez
    • , Isabel Pérez
    •  & Almudena Zurita

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    Images and spectroscopy obtained by the JWST from two HSC-SSP quasars show massive, compact and disc-like galaxies, indicating that the relation between black holes and their host galaxies was in place less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

    • Xuheng Ding
    • , Masafusa Onoue
    •  & Jinyi Yang

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    GS-9209 is spectroscopically confirmed as a massive quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 4.658, showing that massive galaxy formation and quenching were already well underway within the first billion years of cosmic history.

    • Adam C. Carnall
    • , Ross J. McLure
    •  & Sam Walker

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    The authors report observational evidence that, within interstellar gas, there are temperature inhomogeneities affecting only highly ionized gas and causing the abundance discrepancy problem, and provide new empirical relations for estimation of temperature and metallicity.

    • J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado
    • , César Esteban
    •  & Manuel Peimbert

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    The JWST, with the aid of gravitational lensing, confirms the extreme distance of an ultra-faint galaxy at a redshift of 9.79, showing it to have a luminosity typical of the sources responsible for cosmic reionization and highly compact and complex morphology.

    • Guido Roberts-Borsani
    • , Tommaso Treu
    •  & Rogier A. Windhorst

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    Investigation of the physical conditions of the circumgalactic medium led to detection of two compact [C ii]-emitting galaxies with narrow linewidths at a redshift of 5.7, associated with a complex, high-ionization C iv absorption system.

    • Daichi Kashino
    • , Simon J. Lilly
    •  & Anna-Christina Eilers

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    Analysis of observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array showed evidence of the thermal Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect in the direction of the Spiderweb protocluster at a redshift of 2.156.

    • Luca Di Mascolo
    • , Alexandro Saro
    •  & Francesca Rizzo

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    James Webb Space Telescope early release observations used to search for intrinsically red galaxies from the first 750 million years of cosmic history find six candidate massive galaxies, possibly including one of roughly 1011 solar masses.

    • Ivo Labbé
    • , Pieter van Dokkum
    •  & Bingjie Wang

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    A study of intracluster light (ICL) in ten high-redshift galaxy clusters finds evidence that gradual stripping may not be the dominant mechanism of ICL formation, but may occur alongside the formation and growth of the brightest cluster galaxies, and/or accretion of preprocessed stars.

    • Hyungjin Joo
    •  & M. James Jee

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    Atomic hydrogen observations in the vicinity of Stephan’s Quintet are reported, showing a large gaseous structure of around 0.6 Mpc in size in the velocity range of 6,550–6,750 km s−1.

    • C. K. Xu
    • , C. Cheng
    •  & F. Renaud

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    By analysing Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph spectra, evidence is provided for the presence of a Magellanic Corona surrounding the Large Magellanic Cloud, as predicted given its high mass.

    • Dhanesh Krishnarao
    • , Andrew J. Fox
    •  & Nicolas Lehner

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    Observations by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope on AstroSat reveal ten blue compact dwarf galaxies with excess far-ultraviolet emission in their outer region, indicating star formation in accreting disks.

    • Anshuman Borgohain
    • , Kanak Saha
    •  & Shyam N. Tandon

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    Lyman-α absorption observations from the Las Campanas Observatory are used to find a population of ultraviolet-dim protoclusters that contain few galaxies compared with their analogues in cosmological simulations.

    • Andrew B. Newman
    • , Gwen C. Rudie
    •  & John S. Mulchaey

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    Spectroscopy of a gravitationally lensed galaxy at a redshift of 2.7 with spatially resolved maps of two foreground damped Lyman α systems indicates a vast mass of neutral hydrogen gas, consistent with a star-forming region.

    • Rongmon Bordoloi
    • , John M. O’Meara
    •  & James D. Neill

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    An unusual ultraviolet compact object associated with a dusty starburst has been observed at a redshift of about 7.2, with a luminosity that falls between that of quasars and galaxies, possibly in transition between the two. 

    • S. Fujimoto
    • , G. B. Brammer
    •  & P. A. Oesch

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    A massive star at a redshift of 6.2, corresponding to 900 million years after the Big Bang, is magnified greatly by lensing of the foreground galaxy cluster WH0137–08.

    • Brian Welch
    • , Dan Coe
    •  & Tom Broadhurst

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    Two serendipitously detected dust-obscured galaxies are reported at z = 6.7 and 7.4, with estimates that such galaxies provide an additional 10–25% contribution to the total star formation rate density at z > 6.

    • Y. Fudamoto
    • , P. A. Oesch
    •  & C. White

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    The authors report 1.3 mm observations of dust emission from strongly lensed galaxies where star formation is quenched, demonstrating that gas depletion is responsible for the cessation of star formation in some high-redshift galaxies.

    • Katherine E. Whitaker
    • , Christina C. Williams
    •  & Francesco Valentino

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    The metallicity of the interstellar medium measured towards 25 stars relatively near the Sun shows large variations, suggesting that infalling pristine gas is not efficiently mixed in the interstellar medium.

    • Annalisa De Cia
    • , Edward B. Jenkins
    •  & Jens-Kristian Krogager

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    An analysis of archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey finds that star-forming satellite galaxies are relatively more common along the minor axis of central galaxies owing to the effect of black hole feedback.

    • Ignacio Martín-Navarro
    • , Annalisa Pillepich
    •  & Volker Springel

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    Radio observations of the cluster Abell 3376, combined with numerical modelling, attribute the bent jets associated with the second-brightest galaxy in the cluster to an ordered magnetic field at the discontinuity.

    • James O. Chibueze
    • , Haruka Sakemi
    •  & Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

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    Observations from the eROSITA telescope reveal soft-X-ray-emitting bubbles extending above and below the Galactic plane, which arose from energy injected into the Galactic halo from past activity in the Galactic centre.

    • P. Predehl
    • , R. A. Sunyaev
    •  & J. Wilms

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    The architecture of planetary systems is shown to be strongly affected by stellar clustering in position-velocity phase space; hot Jupiters occur preferentially at high density, suggesting that their extreme orbits originate from environmental perturbations.

    • Andrew J. Winter
    • , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen
    •  & Mélanie Chevance

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    Observations of a cold molecular gas associated with the atomic hydrogen outflow from the centre of our Galaxy indicate that this gas has a surprisingly high mass but unclear origin.

    • Enrico M. Di Teodoro
    • , N. M. McClure-Griffiths
    •  & Lucia Armillotta

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