A group of astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest galaxy ever detectedborn in the early universe 13.5 billion years ago, although the results need to be confirmed with slower observations.
Through more than 1,200 hours of observation of the sky and the help of four telescopesastronomers found “HD1”, a very luminous object whose “red color corresponds to the characteristics of a galaxy located 13.5 billion years old,” said Yuichi Harikane, in a statement published by The Royal Astronomical Society.
The galaxy HD1 is located 100 million years further away than GN-z11so far the farthest galaxy discovered, according to the agency AFP.
This galaxy was born 300 million years following the Big Bang, which 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, should measure, among other elements, its strong ultraviolet radiationa sign of an activity that theoretical models of galaxy formation had not foreseen, as published Tel.
