Free Astronomy Magazine January-February 2026

28 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2026 ASTRO PUBLISHING A stronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, ex- treme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy using the ALMA telescope. The galaxy is glowing intensely in superheated cosmic dust while forming stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way. The discovery indicates how galaxies could have Superheated star factory in the early Universe discovered by Chalmers University and NRAO