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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.

The 50-year-old institution offers students the opportunity to work with research scientists on global issues impacting women and girls.

Grace Sun ’27 plays piano for seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. During the pandemic, she would play virtually for her isolated grandmother. Now, more than 100 musicians have joined the movement.

Research shows keeping work and home life separate increases stress and depletes energy. Holly May ’03, Petco’s chief HR officer, believes employees should “show up as who they are, authentically and vulnerably.”

Even if a withdrawal from relationships isn’t initially meant to be political, it can still become so, says Rosanna Hertz, sociologist and author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. Many “single by chance” mothers as “reluctant revolutionaries.”

FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with professor emerita Katherine Moon about how South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol created the rhetoric of a national security crisis and has likely signalled his own downfall.