They Found A Huge Protogalaxy 10 Billion Light Years Away

they recently spotted it…

Here is a really cool discovery of a “primitive” type of galaxy that is 10 billion light years away. This was only possible within the last decade or so with the advent of super powerful space telescopes. However, it was not the hubble that found this one:

Astronomer using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager have discovered a giant protogalaxy 10 billion light-years away, and found that it is connected to a filament of the intergalactic medium.

The protogalaxy is about 400,000 light-years across, about four times larger in diameter than our own Milky Way Galaxy.

It is situated in a system dominated by two quasars, the closest of which, UM 287, is positioned so that its emission is beamed like a flashlight, helping to illuminate the cosmic web filament feeding gas into the spiraling protogalaxy.

This is mind boggling. What do you think this will tell us about galaxies? And do you think they will find more of these?

Let’s find out more about this enormous formation on the next page