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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered tiny dust particles traveling far beyond their galaxy, surviving harsh conditions in the circumgalactic medium, revealing new insights into galaxy evolution and matter recycling through a proposed 'cloud-wind mixing' mechanism.
Astronomers have observed a giant nebula in a cluster of young galaxies feeding on material some of them previously spewed out, just three billion years after the Big Bang. The observations add to the growing evidence that galaxies mature by trading material with their local environments. The study team imaged MAMMOTH-1, a bright nebula in a dense galaxy cluster roughly 11 billion light-years from Earth, and found it feeding on material from its local environment via at least three streams of gas. These streams illuminate part of the cosmic web that connects galaxies with their local environments.