ESA/Hubble/Webb weic2405: Webb finds dwarf galaxies reionised the Universe. Using the unprecedented capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists have obtained the first spectroscopic observations of the faintest galaxies during the first billion years of the Universe. These findings help answer a longstanding …
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28 February 2024

Using the unprecedented capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists have obtained the first spectroscopic observations of the faintest galaxies during the first billion years of the Universe. These findings help answer a longstanding question for astronomers: what sources caused the reionisation of the Universe? These news results have effectively demonstrated that small dwarf galaxies are the likely producers of prodigious amounts of energetic radiation.

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28 February 2024

 
         
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