Here is a really cool discovery of a “primitive” type of galaxy that is 10 billion light years away!
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. Let’s find out more about this enormous formation on the next page
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Wow ten billion years, that predates our planet by about 5.5 billion years. Who knows what’s actually there now. That’s a lot of time for change.