Above and Beyond: Observing Infrared from Early Galaxies

 

 

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach

 

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA except:

 

·       Illustration of radiation from everyday objects courtesy of STScI

·       Illustration of electromagnetic waves courtesy of STScI

·       Photo of crepuscular rays courtesy of Wikimedia user Fir0002/Flagstaffotos

·       Photo of snake courtesy of Mark Mannetti

·       Infrared image of a mouse courtesy of Julius Lab, UCSF

·       Photo of snow geese and the Moon courtesy of Brocken Inaglory

·       James Webb Space Telescope illustrations by STScI/G. Bacon

·       Ariane 5 rocket launch image ©2008 ESA – CNES – Arianespace/Photo by Optique Video CSG

·       James Webb Space Telescope animation by STScI/G. Bacon

·       Animation of traveling light pulses courtesy of Footage Island

·       Alpha Centauri animation courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

·       Andromeda Galaxy image courtesy of ESA/Hubble & Digitized Sky Survey 2; acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

·       Illustration of galaxies at different distances by STScI/A. Field

·       Cosmic redshift animation courtesy of ESO

·       Simulated JWST galaxy field image courtesy of STScI

·       Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory

 

Written by Tracy Vogel

Designed by Marc Lussier 

Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

 

 

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Red, pink, orange, and white galaxies.

Text, Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Infrared. The Hubble Deep Field contains a myriad of beautiful galaxies.

Three small red galaxies are circled in green.

Text, But when astronomers are looking for the most distant galaxies in the universe, they peer past these spirals and ellipticals to search for the tiny, glowing red dots that are the earliest galaxies we can see with Hubble.

The James Webb Space Telescope can see even younger galaxies, in more detail, deeper in the cosmos.