Technology 6/17/2026
The Webb telescope has captured its first 'bulge fossil fragment'
The James Webb Space Telescope, in a groundbreaking collaboration with the Hubble Space Telescope, has identified a celestial body previously misclassified as a globular star cluster: Terzan 5 has been revealed as a 'bulge fossil fragment,' offering unprecedented insight into the violent, chaotic birth of galactic bulges and, by extension, our own Milky Way galaxy. This reclassification, announced by researchers on June 16, 2026, overturns decades of astronomical understanding and provides direct observational evidence for how the central, densely packed regions of galaxies form.
