NASA’s Hubble Uncovers Case of Missing Oxygen in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies

November 2, 2026 · 3:00 pm 2 sources

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• NASA’s Hubble Uncovers Case of Missing Oxygen in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
  NASA · November 2, 2026 15:00
  NASA’s Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies and found that much of the oxygen they expected to see is missing.

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• Stars make oxygen for small galaxies, but they lose most of it
  Phys.org · November 2, 2026 20:00
  Scientists examining data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that dozens of small galaxies contain far less oxygen than their stars are estimated to have produced. The researchers, including a Rutgers astrophysicist, studied 37 dwarf galaxies, which are much smaller than the…