«This new discovery shows that the Webb telescope will surely find many
such young galaxies reaching back to when the first galaxies were forming,» said Illingworth.
Finding
such a young galaxy near others that are at least 7 billion years old thrilled — and perplexed — the scientists.
Not exact matches
Such galaxies are rare, but astronomers believe that they were more common in the past, when the Universe was
younger.
Because the dust is generated by
young stars,
such galaxies could open a new window on the universe's most active star - formation period.
u «The presence of these [25] elements, particularly those heavier than iron, in
such a
young [distant]
galaxy is striking.
On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical
galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details
such as bluish clusters of
young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.