File:Galaxy Forming in the Early Universe (Artist’s Concept) (2024-114).jpg
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English: This illustration shows a galaxy forming only a few hundred million years after the big bang, when gas was a mix of transparent and opaque during the Era of Reionization. Data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show that there is a lot of cold, neutral gas in the neighborhood of these early galaxies – and that the gas may be more dense than anticipated.
Webb observed these galaxies as part of its Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey a few months after it began taking observations in 2022. CEERS includes both images and data known as spectra from the microshutters aboard its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph). Data from CEERS were released immediately to support discoveries like this as part of Webb’s Early Release Science (ERS) program. NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) |
Date | 23 May 2024 (upload date) |
Source | Galaxy Forming in the Early Universe (Artist’s Concept) |
Author | Illustration NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) |
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Keywords InfoField | Galaxies; First Galaxies; Galaxy Evolution; Galaxy Formation; Cosmology; Distant Galaxies |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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