Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202601 After combing through the James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously unseen combination of features. Principal investigator Haojing Yan compares the discovery to an infamous oddball in another branch of science: biology’s taxonomy-defying platypus.