Mystery of the First Billion Years After the Big Bang Solved
Todays stories include JWST Reveals Some of the Universe's Most Ancient Objects and The Only Thing which Protected Us from an Apollo Moon Plague was Luck.
"You're looking at 45,000+ galaxies," NASA tweeted.--Astronomers recently trained the profoundly powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a small section of the sky, endeavoring to find some of the universe's most ancient objects. Just this single image, shown above and below, encompasses tens of thousands of galaxies(opens in a new tab).
China launches a new experimental plate-shaped satellite to orbit--The country's space administration also recently announced it will launch 13,000 internet satellites to compete with SpaceX's Starlink, reports Interesting Engineering.
First batch of DESI data available for scientists to mine--Early Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) release holds nearly two million objects, including distant galaxies, quasars and stars in our own Milky Way, reports Interesting Engineering.
The mystery of our transparent universe has been solved reports Scott Sutherland for Yahoo News. "During the first billion years or so following the Big Bang, the space between the stars and galaxies was filled with clouds of cooled hydrogen gas, which absorbed all light. As a result, if any intelligent life existed at the time, they would have seen nothing but darkness out in space — no other stars or galaxies would have been visible to them."
Interesting Engineering: Unraveling the cosmic mystery: are aliens among us or are we dreaming. Despite institutional silence, Pentagon's David Charles Grusch and Nasic's Jonathan Grey counter the norm, reports Interesting Engineering.
Apollo Moon Microbes--the only thing which protected us from an alien plague was luck, according to a study published in the science history journal Isis.
Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says--A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer, reports The New York Times.
Curated by The Galaxy Report editorial staff.