About 10 years ago, a team from Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the Spitzer telescope to study the EBL and concluded that the fluctuations of light must be produced by primordial galaxies and black holes in the very early history of the universe, says team member Samuel Moseley. (sciencemag.org)
Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA will launch in 2019 to peer into the early history of the universe, will therefore «be essential for getting more information on stellar winds and exoplanet atmospheres,» the authors say, «thereby paving the way for more accurate estimations of stellar - wind induced atmospheric losses.» (sciencedaily.com)
The Infant Universe Grew Up Fast The Sloan survey functions as a time machine, looking not just far out into space but also far back into the early history of the universe. (discovermagazine.com)