You might recognize a few of these from Twitter due to my inability to keep quiet ? /cJsVyXwuqLįor context of how utterly big this final image is, the team explains that it covers an area about eight times as large as the JWST’s First Deep Field, released July 11, which was already mind-bendingly massive. I pulled out some of my favorite (I was limited to 6, it was rough) galaxies and sections to highlight. I have spent *time* just scrolling through and staring at this picture over the past weeks. It’s named Maisie’s galaxy, after his daughter, because it was discovered on her birthday.īut now, CEERS says Epoch 1 is officially complete. For instance, CEERS project head Steven Finkelstein announced the submission of a paper last month regarding a “very convincing” candidate for a galaxy that could’ve existed only 290 million years post-Big Bang. (2022)/NASA/ESA/CSA/STScIĪlready, the CEERS collaboration has been revealing sneak peeks of Epoch 1, many of which have sent astronomers spiraling down the JWST discovery rabbit hole and publishing papers about galactic goodies within. The scale bar is 1 kiloparsec (about 3,260 light-years).įinkelstein et al. This pixelated red dot could be a galaxy that existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang - aka, Maisie’s galaxy.
#Redshift space Patch
It’s a record-breaking mural known as Epoch 1, and covers a small patch of sky near the handle of the Big Dipper constellation. Last week, international scientists affiliated with the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey, or CEERS, presented an enormous, full-color mosaic born of data gathered by the JWST. A little more than a month since this trailblazing instrument left humanity in awe following the release of its first intergalactic views, nebular portraits and stellar artifacts, it has endowed us with its largest image yet. For the James Webb Space Telescope, milestones have been unyielding.