A group of astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest galaxy ever detected, born in the early universe 13.5 billion years agoalthough the results must be confirmed with more leisurely observations.
Through more than After 1,200 hours of observation of the sky and the help of four telescopes, astronomers found “HD1”, a very bright object whose “red color corresponds to the characteristics of a galaxy located 13.5 billion years ago”said Yuichi Harikane, in a statement published by The Royal Astronomical Society.
the galaxy HD1 it is located 100 million years further away than GN-z11, so far the most distant galaxy discoveredaccording to the AFP agency.
this galaxy was born 300 million years after the Big Bangwhich gave rise to the universe and the light it emanates traveled for 13.5 billion years to reach Earth.
“When I found this red, I got goosebumps,” explains the astrophysicist at the University of Tokyo, one of the authors of the study that appeared in the Astrophysical Journal.
Now, the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched by Nasa, will have to measure, among other elements, its strong ultraviolet radiation, a sign of an activity that theoretical models of galaxy formation had not foreseen.
