Astronomers have promised a glimpse into the far reaches of the universe and have not violated it. The edge of the universe was seen by the infrared space telescope.
and he James Webb Space TelescopeAnd the telescope sent Earth images of the farthest and oldest of the four galaxies that appeared among the first galaxies in this remote part of the universe at which the telescope was pointed, and there appears to be nothing more distant.
According to the RT website, for the first time, scientists were able to see galaxies that formed only 350 million years after the Big Bang. It’s incredibly far away, said astronomer Brant Robertson of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Undoubtedly, the distance was determined correctly.
“By analyzing the radiation spectrum of the captured telescope, we realized that the detected galaxies are not imaginary, but are actually at the edge of our vision, i.e. a little further than what was seen by the orbiting Hubble telescope,” he said astronomer Emma Courtesman, of the University of Hertfordshire in Great Britain, noted that this result is very exciting.
He added that those distant galaxies correspond to the red deviations “10.38”, “11.58”, “12.63”, “13.20”, and the latter is equivalent to a distance of about 13.5 billion light years. This has been officially confirmed.
The Big Bang, which marks the beginning of all things, occurred 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, the universe has expanded and its firstborns have drifted apart. And looking at them, astronomers plunge into the depths of the past, like archaeologists dig into the ground. And they see what happened when the universe was a newborn, but it seems eventful.
It is now believed that, before the birth of the first stars, the universe was filled with opaque matter and its molecules gradually coalesced to form neutral hydrogen. As for emerging stars, they ionized hydrogen and made it glow.
It is worth noting that the “James Webb” telescope operates in the infrared range, where the sensitive camera (NIRCam) captures the rays of distant space objects that reach us in a distorted form. As a rule, it is shifted to the red region of the spectrum. This phenomenon is called “red shift”. It arises as a result of the expansion of the universe and the distance of galaxies from each other. The farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is receding and the greater the redshift.
