The JamesWebbSpaceTelescope continues to astonish, with early data providing a tantalizing glimpse at some extremely distant and extremely old galaxies.
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to astonish, with early data from one of its survey projects providing a tantalizing glimpse at some extremely distant and extremely old galaxies. Early data from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey has been compiled into a stunning view of a field of galaxies including one of the most distant galaxies yet observed.
This finding of a galaxy with a redshift of more than 14 puts it as even more distant than another distant galaxy discovered by Webb which recently made headlines, as that one had a redshift of 13. The magnitude of the redshift of a galaxy is denoted using the letter z, with redshifts of more than 8 indicating that the light from an object has traveled for more than 13 billion years, for example.
Finding an object with a redshift of 14 is unprecedented, and it indicates that we are looking back at a galaxy that formed within just 290 million years after the Big Bang. This was during a period called the Epoch of Reionization when the hydrogen began to be ionized and the first light shone through the universe.
The finding is also intriguing as it suggests that these very distant galaxies could be more common than predicted, meaning there is a great opportunity for studying them. “These images are exciting because the sheer number of these really high redshift galaxy candidates is larger than we expected,” said one of the authors, Jeyhan Kartaltepe of Rochester Institute of Technology, in a statement. “We knew we’d find some, but I don’t think anybody thought we’d find as many as we have.
The research will be published in The Astrophysical Journal and is available to view on the pre-print archive arXiv.
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