Using the James Webb Telescope, astronomers at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have discovered a filamentous association of ten galaxies that existed 830 million years after the Big Bang. Experts believe that the thread will eventually grow into a large galactic cluster. reported on the NASA website.
“I was surprised at how long and narrow this thread was. I was hoping to find something [необычное]”But I wasn’t expecting such a tall, distinctly thin structure,” said Xiaohui Fang, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson and a member of the research team.
This discovery was made as part of the ASPIRE (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment) project, whose main purpose was to study the cosmic environment of the oldest black holes.
“This is one of the oldest filamentous structures that humans have found associated with a distant quasar,” added Feige Wang, an astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson and lead author of the study.
In total, project participants will observe 25 quasars that existed during the first billion years after the Big Bang, known as the age of reionization.
Formerly MAVEN Probe delivery Ultraviolet images of Mars. These images were taken in 2022 and 2023 when the Red Planet was at opposite ends of its orbit.