The MIRI instrument, which was developed in the Netherlands, works even better than thought in the analysis of the first image. The time when the universe was only about 1 billion years old was shown by the researchers. The first galaxies were formed during this time. The analysis will be published in a journal.
For the past two decades, researchers had to rely on images from the Spitzer camera. The telescope only looked back about 2 to 3 billion years after the Bigbang. Edoardo Iani is a research leader at the University of Groningen and he says that the time when the first galaxies were formed is important. We're very pleased with our findings.
Astronomers were able to see things that had not been seen before with the help of the james wbb space telescope They were able to calculate the number of stars in the distant universe. The Hubble Space Telescope did not collect much of the original light because it was stretched by the universe.
More and deeper images are expected to be available soon. It could allow us to go into the dark ages. We had hoped that we would achieve that when we designed the instrument, but now it looks like we'll be able to.
It's about MIri.
Several European partners collaborated on the development of MIri. Thanks to the efforts of the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy, the MIRI spectrometer was realized. The NOVA Optical-Infrared Group at ASTRON in Dwingeloo was involved in the design and construction of the project.
The Astrophysical Journal accepted a first look into the nature of the 7.7-micron sources.
Edoardo Iani and his team looked into the nature of the sources from SMACS. There is a book titled "arxiv. 2208.06364." It was accepted for publication.
Journal information: Astrophysical Journal , arXiv
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