Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to zero in on a dwarf galaxy that suddenly started making stars after a billions-of-years-long pause.

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million ...

But it’s still extraordinary that Hubble saw Leo A, because this galaxy is small and dim. This “speckling of stars,” the European Space Agency wrote in 2016, forms a single entity.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Contained within a small galaxy located 5.3 million light-years away are big clues about how stars can form. In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all ...