Early-Universe Galaxy Cluster

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

 

Video imagery:

·       Wide field Hubble view of extremely red quasar SDSS J165202.64+172852.3: ESA/Hubble, NASA, N. Zakamska

·        Composite image of Hubble wide-field view and Webb NIRSpec images: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, D. Wylezalek, A. Vayner & the Q3D Team, N. Zakamska

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A grid of photographs of celestial bodies moves up. A white line moves down and another across. Text, News from the universe. The text is above an image of Jupiter.

 

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Text, November 4, 2022. Early Universe Galaxy Cluster.

 

A bright star surrounded by galaxies and stars.

 

Text, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe that existed 11.5 billion years ago.

 

Webb was investigating a known quasar, a type of active, very bright supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of a massive galaxy.

 

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Text, Webb confirmed three massive galaxies orbiting each other at very high speeds in the region surrounding the quasar, and there could be more.

 

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Text, The region around the quasar is very dense, and astronomers think it could indicate two massive regions of dark matter merging together.

 

Each box labels the kilometers per second.

 

Text, This news was brought to you by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.