Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light for the first time. Alongside a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, these images provide new insights into how the first galaxies formed over 13 billion years ago.
Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light for the first time. Alongside a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, these images provide new insights into how the first galaxies formed over 13 billion years ago.
«In the images, we can see the most distant galaxies known to us», says Göran Östlin, Professor of Astronomy at Stockholm University’s Department of Astronomy.
In the study, the research team present their observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the area of the sky that has been observed most frequently by various telescopes, including Hubble and James Webb in space and ground-based telescopes such as VLT and ALMA.
