About one billion years after the Big Bang, the universe experienced a period known as the "epoch of reionization" where the neutral hydrogen atoms that filled the universe became ionized from the UV ...
NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer telescope (SPHEREx) has ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is well-known for discovering young, bright galaxies in the very early universe. How such regions, bursting with stars, formed so quickly and survived is enticing ...
If you wander around the Karoo Desert of South Africa long enough, you will eventually stumble upon a strange sight: hundreds of telephone poles stuck into the ground, arranged in a beehive-like ...
The universe was dark until the first stars began to form, but really lit up once massive hydrogen clouds began birthing galaxies of stars. A study by researchers using data from the South Pole ...
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionization of the neutral hydrogen gas to about 1.1 billion years ...
New data from the South Pole Telescope indicates that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected.