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Webb provides a new detailed look into the formation of the first galaxies
In the past few years, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of how the first stars and galaxies formed in the early Universe. Now, an international team of researchers, led by astronomers at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, have published the first, large-scale study of more than 600 galaxies observed within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This survey moves the field from studying the first few discoveries with Webb, to establishing large, statistical samples of galaxies. Intriguingly, this study reveals how some of the earliest galaxies accrete massive amounts of pristine gas from their surroundings, a sign that we are now seeing the formation of galaxies in progress.
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Pengpei Zhu awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy
Congratulations to PhD student Peng Pei who has been awarded the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Award for Astronomy by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, for his master’s thesis at Leiden.
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Charlotte Mason receives large ERC grant to study structure formation in the early Universe
Congratulations to Charlotte Mason who has been awarded a large grant from the European Research Council. The grant will fund two postdocs and a PhD student that will become a part of Charlotte Mason’s research group and help studying how galaxies formed and affected the early Universe.
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Chinese-French mission to study exploding stars launched successfully
Once again, the James Webb Space Telescope has expanded our cosmic frontiers: With the confirmation of two galaxies seen around 300 million years after the Big Bang, we are now closer than ever before to the epoch of the formation of the first galaxies. More than just another record, the galaxies are extremely bright, forcing us again to reconsider our knowledge of how structure forms in the Universe.
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Astro-Pic Of the Day
- Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia AMassive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives