NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog’s Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of the dwarf galaxy Sextans A reveal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), large carbon-based molecules that can be a signifier of star formation. The inset at the top right zooms in on those PAHs, which are represented in green.

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Elizabeth Tarantino (STScI), Martha Boyer (STScI), Julia Roman-Duval (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

March 4, 2026

A team featuring our own Professor Dan Weisz was featured recently in an article from NASA highlighting how they used observations from The James Webb Space Telescope of a nearby galaxy to study interstellar dust that is thought to be similar to what was presented in the early Universe.

Read the full NASA article here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/

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