Makani. Jim Geach, David Tree, Peter Richardson, Games and Visual Effects Research Lab, University of Hertfordshire

How we discovered a glowing galactic ghoul

New research shows how chemical elements mix in the universe. Without this process, you wouldn’t be here.
Galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The inset image is the very distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, W. Zheng (JHU), M. Postman (STScI), the CLASH Team, Hashimoto et al.

When did the lights first come on in the universe? A galaxy close to the dawn of time gives a clue

Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.

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