Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

With help Of James Web Space TelescopeA group of astronomers broke the oldest, the most distant record Galaxy Have been detected by humans to today.

In a print studyStill looking forward to the peer review and publication in a journal, astronomers described this primitive galaxy, named Mum Z 14. According to researchers’ calculations, this “cosmic miracle” derived 280 million years after the Big Bang, losing the record prescribed by the last year of JDes-Z 14-0, was created 290 million years after a Galaxy Universe source.

In the context of these measurements, the current age of the universe is estimated as 13.8 billion years. Earth’s approximate age of 4.543 billion years. No one expects the James Web Space Telescope to be more likely to be monitored by the Big Bang age just three and a half years after the launch.

A short reminder about distance than space-time. Because the light travels at a restricted speed of 300,000 meters per second and the space is expanded, the equivalent of seeing the light from very distant objects is equivalent to seeing what was long ago. For example, when we say that MOM Z 14 is about 13.5 billion years old, that means you have to travel 13.5 billion years at light speed to reach its destination. So far, far away, no scientific device can be detected and at the same time older than it.

The James Web Space Telescope, with the ability to visit deeply in its distant places, allows us to study some aspects of the universe in the early stages. How does it do? By infrared sensor. Due to the expansion of the universe, we are moving away from almost all the galaxies from the earth. So, from our point of view, they seem to have long wavelengths in their light because it extends by this movement. We call this ”Redashift“: Their wavelengths are reddish because they are longer, and therefore the light spectrum is transferred to the red edge of The previous object, and therefore it is farther, expanding the outside for a long time, more redashift.

The James Web Space was able to determine the telescope that MOM Z was 50 times smaller than Milkyo and detected the presence of nitrogen and carbon in the galaxy. This is significant because, despite being only 20 million years older than the Big Bang, it shows that Mum Z is not related to the first generation of 14 galaxy, since the stars of these galaxies were made only with hydrogen and helium, the elements that originally created the primary universe. Heavy elements came only afterAfter the stars were produced.

Can the James web cross that marginal and find the first generation of the galaxy? These national discoveries can be far away but we have to look for.

This story was originally attended Wired In Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.