These results came from a scientific analysis of the photo he took James Webb Observatory for"first depth field"The image, which contains thousands of sparkling galaxies, became famous for being the first image taken by the giant space observatory of NASA. NASAaccording to the British newspaper The Independent.
says fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy andAstrophysics at the University of Toronto and co-lead author of the study, Lamia Mulla: "This first depth field discovery already provides a detailed look at the first stage of star formation, confirming the amazing power of the James Webb Space Observatory.".
These results are only the latest breakthrough by the James Webb Space Observatory, which scientists have suggested could change the way we work in the field astronomy Mainly because of the huge amount of data it can provide to scientists.
And only in recent days, the observatory has tracked a mission "dart" DART pioneered NASA from a distance and provided new insights about a planet Neptune.
Currently, it has been used to start a search that could end with the discovery of the oldest stars ever hidden in that early image of the observatory that delighted the world.
From that image, the researchers focused their work on one of the galaxies, a galaxy "sparkler"which is 9 billion light-years away from Earthbut can be seen partially because "the sparkle" that surrounds it, which appears as orange dots.
Scientists believe that the sparkle could be newly formed clusters that create stars, or it could be older clusters, which are ancient groups of stars that formed early in the process. galaxy.
Scientists examined 12 of these objects and found that 5 of them are ancient clusters – some of the oldest ever observed.
These clusters are so old that they were born almost as close as possible to galaxy formation because they were in fact forming stars.
Karthik Lear, a fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study, said in a statement: "Because we can observe the brightness across a range of wavelengths, we can model it and better understand its physical properties, such as its age and the number of stars it contains. Hopefully, knowing that clusters can be observed from such vast distances using the James Webb Observatory will stimulate more science and the search for similar objects.".
Until now, it was already difficult to see those things around Sparkler GalaxyBut the increased sensitivity of NASA’s new telescope means it can be looked at closely enough to understand what it is, and how old it may be.
It is noteworthy that the new results were published in an article entitled "The Sparkler: An advanced high redshift cluster of star clusters captured by the James Webb Space Observatory." Which was published in the magazine "Astrophysical Journal Letters".
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It is believed that this “stellar clump” of millions of stars is what is believed to be stars The first and oldest in Universeaccording to the researchers who discovered it.
These results came from a scientific analysis of the photo he took James Webb Observatory of the “first depth field”, an image containing thousands of shimmering galaxies, which became famous for being the first image taken by NASA’s giant space observatory. NASAaccording to the British newspaper The Independent.
says fellow at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy andAstrophysics At the University of Toronto and co-lead author of the study, Lamia Mulla, “This first depth field discovery already provides a detailed look at the first stage of star formation, confirming the amazing power of the James Webb Space Observatory.”
These results are only the latest breakthrough by the James Webb Space Observatory, which scientists have suggested could change the way we work in the field astronomy Mainly because of the huge amount of data it can provide to scientists.
And just in recent days, the observatory has tracked NASA’s pioneering DART mission from a distance and provided new insights into the planet. Neptune.
Currently, it has been used to start a search that could end with the discovery of the oldest stars ever hidden in that early image of the observatory that delighted the world.
From that image, the researchers focused their work on one of the galaxies, the “Sparkler” galaxy, which is 9 billion light-years away. Earthbut can be seen in part because of the “sparkle” that surrounds them, which appear as orange dots.
Scientists believe that the sparkle could be newly formed clusters that create stars, or it could be older clusters, which are ancient groups of stars that formed early in the process. galaxy.
Scientists examined 12 of these objects and found that 5 of them are ancient clusters – some of the oldest ever observed.
These clusters are so old that they were born almost as close as possible to galaxy formation because they were in fact forming stars.
“Because we’ve been able to detect brightness across a range of wavelengths, we can model them and better understand their physical properties, such as their age and the number of stars they contain,” Karthik Lear, a fellow at the University of Toronto’s Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a co-author of the study, said in a statement. Knowing that clusters can be observed from such vast distances with the James Webb Observatory will stimulate more science and the search for similar objects.”
Until now, it was already difficult to see those things around Sparkler GalaxyBut the increased sensitivity of NASA’s new telescope means it can be looked at closely enough to understand what it is, and how old it may be.
It is noteworthy that the new results were published in an article entitled “The Sparkler: An Advanced Set of High Redshifts of Star Clusters Captured by the James Webb Space Observatory” published in the “Astrophysical Journal Letters”.