James Webb Telescope reveals hidden galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster
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The James Webb Space Telescope has overcome the obstacles of cosmic dust and found new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. The object is located at a distance of 10 billion light years from Earth.
Thanks to the capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), it was possible to overcome the obstacles of cosmic dust and find new galaxies in the object of the early Universe.
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A team of researchers from the Canarian Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), in collaboration with other international institutions, has managed to find new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster .
The discovery was made possible through the use of the James Webb Space Telescope, which is a project of the US Space Agency (NASA); Europe (ESA) and Canada (CSA). In the infrared range, the interference of space dust has been overcome - previously, this dust acted as a curtain that prevented researchers from seeing further. The Spiderweb revealed previously inaccessible regions of star formation.
The study was published in two articles in the Astrophysical Journal.
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The Spiderweb proto-cluster is an object of the early Universe. Its light has taken more than 10,000 million years to reach Earth and shows a cluster of emerging galaxies that consists of more than a hundred known galaxies, explains the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC).
