{"id":196760,"date":"2024-09-29T07:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/distorted-galaxy-forming-cosmic-question-mark"},"modified":"2024-09-29T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:22:26","slug":"distorted-galaxy-forming-cosmic-question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/distorted-galaxy-forming-cosmic-question-mark","title":{"rendered":"Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/distorted-galaxy-forming-cosmic-question-mark2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 7 billion years ago, and the universe\u2019s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope have found clues in the form of a cosmic question mark, the result of a rare alignment across light-years of space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know of only three or four occurrences of similar gravitational lens configurations in the observable universe, which makes this find exciting, as it demonstrates the power of Webb and suggests maybe now we will find more of these,\u201d said astronomer Guillaume Desprez of Saint Mary\u2019s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a member of the team presenting the Webb results.<\/p>\n<p>While this region has been observed previously with NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, the dusty red galaxy that forms the intriguing question-mark shape only came into view with Webb. This is a result of the wavelengths of light that Hubble detects getting trapped in cosmic dust, while longer wavelengths of infrared light are able to pass through and be detected by Webb\u2019s instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 7 billion years ago, and the universe\u2019s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time? Astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope have found clues in the form of a cosmic question mark, the result of a rare alignment across light-years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}