«Thanks to this detection, the team has been able to study for the first time the properties of extremely
faint objects formed not long after the big bang,» said lead author Leopoldo Infante, an astronomer at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).
Not exact matches
«Spitzer allowed us to see really
faint objects so that we could do a census of all the star -
forming regions out to 3,000 light - years.
Though Hubble and Spitzer have detected other galaxies that are record - breakers for distance, this
object represents a smaller,
fainter class of newly
forming galaxies that until now have largely evaded detection.
SOFIA's
Faint Object Infrared Camera will examine the Milky Way's tumultuous center, star -
forming regions, dust clouds, and nearby galaxies.
Hubble's latest discovery of 250
faint galaxies —
formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant
objects.