When James Webba Space Telescope He launched space, we knew that he would make fascinating results. However, we did not imagine everything that would find Map of the Universe which was launched at the beginning of this month.
James Webb has the opportunity to capture very distant images, 13.8 billion light yearsThe field, that is, is located at a distance that passes with light for 13.8 billion years. Since then he big bangThis big explosion, which gave rise to the universe, occurred only 13.8 billion years ago, we might think that we would see the objects that radiated their light immediately after the explosion. But the reality is that this is not entirely true, because for all this time The universe expandedSo that this light has even more travel space.
That is why those who are responsible for this last conclusion indicate that on their map of the Universe you can cover Almost all cosmic timeThe field has not yet reached the bottom of the well, but we are very close. And the fact is that, with current knowledge, the most interesting is on the map of the universe that James Webb managed to get. In the end, in this small period without analysis, there would be very few objects ready to observe.
James Webb was not enough
Due to its ability to work in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, James Webb can penetrate the darkness generated by clouds of gas and dust, access to very weak images, which corresponds to very remote objects. This has done this since the launch of the most complete universe into an important tool for obtaining a card. But this is not enough only with a good space telescope, as it can give a lot unprocessed data, This should be analyzed later.
Members The project of multinational scientific cooperation CosmosThis took two years, using extremely powerful computers, analyzing all this information and creating with it with a map of the universe, which meant a whole box of surprises.
What is on the map of the cosmos universe?
To develop this map of the Universe, they studied 0.54 square degrees of the skyWhat is equivalent to the areas of three full moons when they look from the ground. This allowed to draw Almost 800,000 galaxiesIt applies to the fact that almost 98 % of space history is considered. Only this small percentage, lost with the expansion of the universe, is absent.
But the most amazing in this project is not a map of the universe itself, but everything that it contains. For example, more than times more galaxies were discovered and Some supermassive black holes were discovered, which remained invisible to HubbleThe predecessor of the space telescope James Webb.
All this indicates that during the first hundred million years of our universe, events occurred that We could not predictThe field if the understanding of our origin helps us understand our present, it is clear that we must turn to the investigation that has been carried out so far.
The importance of open science
Scientists value open science. Therefore, the data of this new map of the Universe are available to any scientist who wants to analyze them. It is clear that if we want to understand what happened after the explosion, cooperation is important. Hiding results for other teams of researchers will not bring anything good.
Source: Hiper Textual
