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Mark S. Singel reflects on the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, discovered by a team led by astronomy professor Lamiya Mowla ’13: “We are all on this earth traveling through a magical galaxy together.”

A Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have discovered a new galaxy that is forming. And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Lorraine O’Grady ’55 developed a loyal following for artworks that often proved unclassifiable. Her art critiqued racism, misogyny, and privilege, but it did so using methods that were ambiguous and occasionally even tough to interpret. She spoke frequently of wanting to use what she called “both/and thinking” that stood against Western systems.

Kellie Carter Jackson writes that Kali Gross’s new book, Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times, pushes readers to take in Black women’s justified anger and fury.

"The Milky Way began forming very early in the universe's history, likely around the same time as Firefly Sparkle," said astronomer and assistant professor of astronomy Lamiya Mowla ’13.

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists, including astronomy professor Lamiya Mowla '13, feeling festive.

Astronomer Lamiya Mowla ’13 is the co-lead author of “Formation of a low-mass galaxy from star clusters in a 600-million-year-old Universe” published in Nature on December 11, which is also the birthday of astronomer and Wellesley alum Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884.

Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of what our own galaxy might have looked like when it was being born.

Art professor Kimberly Cassibry writes that Celtic symbols, Greek battles, and Roman cityscapes may grab your attention, but the Arch at Orange is one of the most important monuments to survive from ancient Rome.