Hubble telescope captures the most distant galaxy in the universe – Digital Lopez Doriga

Thanks to a new technique in the use of visualization in the Hubble Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory, a team of astronomers managed to take pictures of the most distant galaxy ever seen.

technique makes it appear that the Hubble is also a time machine. The team managed to capture images over a period in the evolution of the universe, it is assumed, it is impossible to observe with current technology.

The galaxy, named GN-z11, is 25 times smaller than the Milky Way and has only 1 percent of its mass in stars. However, in that youthful galaxy they were forming stars at a rate 20 times higher.

Experts from the US space agency (NASA, for its acronym in English), used Hubble to find a signal wavelength of an extremely bright galaxy 13 billion 400 million light years, according to a study released Thursday by Astrophysical Journal. In addition, the margin of error is up to 5 million light years.

In addition, the light that now includes the Hubble shows that object as it existed when the universe was only 400 million years (now has more than 13 mil), shortly after the first stars and quasars (an astronomical source of electromagnetic energy) reionizasen the cosmos and comenzasen to make it visible.

the theories on the evolution of the universe have difficulty explain how only 200 or 300 million years a galaxy could accumulate the mass of a billion suns. The rate of star formation had to be frantic.

This exceeds all records of time and space and may limit the scope of any observations during the year, at least until a new space telescope is launched more advanced, said the team of astronomers.

However, with the signal light, the experts managed to produce a photograph of this galaxy semiborrosa. Although it has a lot of light and form, actually emits a bright blue light.

The galaxy is an incubator of stars ten times more active than our Milky Way, said Gabriel Brammer, study co-author and astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

This galaxy is the most distant view; is the closest to the explosion of the Big Bang. NASA photo.

“Create stars frantically” he said.

This, advances in technology will allow approaching the moment how could form the first stars. “There is a very large temporal distance between this galaxy and the Primordial Explosion,” said the expert.

With information from El País