astronomers have discovered a Galaxy Young is the most distant ever seen. It is located at 13,100 million light years away of the earth and is in the first generation of galaxies in the world magazine reports “Astrophysical Journal Letters “.
Scientists at Yale University and the University of California at Santa Cruz used three telescopes to spot and then calculate the age of the Galaxy blurred, located in the constellation Bootes. . They determined that this, called EGS-zs8-1 , dates back some 670 million years after the Primordial Explosion (the Big Bang ) that gave birth to universe .
The astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of California said the Galaxy has only 100 million years and that is generating Star about 80 times faster than the Milky Way today. In addition, and ste celestial body is one of the brightest of the world early.
New exploration tools
The new discovery was made possible by the relatively new instrument MOSFIRE the Telescope Keck I (Hawaii), that allows astronomers study efficiently several galaxy at the same time.
Measuring galaxy at these extreme distances and the characterization of their properties is a main objective of the astronomy in the next decade, experts said.
The new Data provided by EGS-zs8-1 serve to get to know the times when the world was experiencing major changes, such as the discovery that hydrogen from Galaxies was the transition from a dead point to an ionized state.
“It seems that the young stars in the first galaxy and EGS-zs8-1 were the main drivers of this transition called reionization, “said Rychard Bouwens, or not the authors of
. Source: AP
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