{
  "id": 17966849,
  "title": "Leviathan's sprawling stars challenge idea that dusty giants become compact galaxies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/leviathans-sprawling-stars-challenge-idea-that-dusty-giants-become",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T12:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-leviathan-sprawling-stars-idea-dusty.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed a massive, dust-rich galaxy called Leviathan in the early universe. Seen when the universe was roughly 1.5 billion years old, the galaxy has its stars spread out rather than in a concentrated fashion. A paper, describing its strange stellar distribution, was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Oct. 19.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}