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A new image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a protocluster of seven ancient galaxies in the early universe. This was reported by Space.com, Ukrinform reports.
This was reported by Space.com, Ukrinform reports.
“This is a special, unique region of accelerated galaxy evolution, and the James Webb telescope has given us an unprecedented opportunity to measure the velocities of these seven galaxies and confirm that they were merging into one primordial cluster,” said Caltech astronomer Takahiro Morishita.
Photo: space.com
The galaxy cluster, with a redshift of 7.9, existed only 650 million light-years after the Big Bang, so it could help answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe. Such features also make them the oldest galaxies spectroscopically confirmed to be part of a young galaxy cluster.
The team managed to determine that galaxies are moving faster than 3.2 million kilometers per hour. Velocities and distances between galaxies were measured with the onboard NIRSpec near-infrared spectrograph.
These data allowed the team to model the evolution of this group of galaxies and predict what this cluster would look like in the modern universe.
According to the researchers’ estimation, the first cluster will eventually resemble the Hair Cluster. This means that this region could be one of the densest galaxies in the universe with thousands of such objects.
As previously reported, NASA’s James Webb space telescope made a new detailed image of the planet Uranus.
Source: Ukrinform
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