Hubble Catches Tiny Galaxy Clearing Cosmic Fog Just 1.4 Billion Years After the Big Bang
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a small, early galaxy that provides new insights into how the early universe cleared its primordial hydrogen fog. This discovery challenges previous scientific assumptions about what was observable in the early universe.
Why it matters
This finding pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the early universe and the Era of Reionization, proving that previously 'impossible' observations are achievable.
A small, ferociously star-forming galaxy observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their closest look yet at how the early universe burned away its primordial hydrogen fog - and the finding arrives just four days after its June 23 publication in The Astrophysical Journal, confirming what many researchers had considered physically impossible.
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