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SCIENTISTS JUST FOUND WATER IN THE MOST DISTANT PART OF THE UNIVERSE SO FAR
How it got there remains a mystery.

PASSANT RABIE
10 HOURS AGO
THE EARLY UNIVERSE IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. But every now and then, astronomers get a peek at what the cosmos were like by peering back in time at distant, ancient galaxies. And galaxy SPT0311-58 just proved how much scientists don’t know about the young universe.

Scientists found water in the galaxy, which is located nearly 12.88 billion light years away. This marks the most distant detection of H2O in a star-forming galaxy, and the most comprehensive look at molecular gas that early in the universe’s timeline.

The team detailed their findings in a study published Wednesday in The Astrophysical Journal and available on the pre-print server Arxiv.

WHAT’S NEW — Sreevani Jarugula, an astronomer at the University of Illinois and lead author of the new study, first spotted the galaxy SPT0311-58 in 2017 and was struck by how much dust and gas were in the galaxy.

“We wanted to know what the molecule content of the galaxy is,” Jarugula tells Inverse. The team detected both water and carbon monoxide molecules.

SPT0311-58 galaxy with water
This galactic pair was found early on in the universe, just after the cosmos was completely dark.NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry
SPT0311-58 is actually made up of a pair of galaxies that appear to be merging.

“So it’s actually a very elongated structure, which is very clumpy,” Jarugula says. “There are so many clumps in that galaxy; it’s not like a smooth galaxy.”

The brighter galaxy is located on the right of the image, shaped sort of like an arc. It appears so clearly despite its distance because it is gravitationally lensed by a massive nearby galaxy.

Gravitational lensing is a cosmic effect that acts like a giant magnifying lens. When a large object like a star or galaxy passes in front of an object in the background from the observer’s point of view, it distorts and amplifies the light coming from a distant source, making it appear brighter.

The molecules in the galaxy are magnified by this other galaxy, making it easier to observe them.

WHAT THEY FOUND — Scientists are able to detect H2O as the dust absorbs the ultraviolet radiation from the stars in the galaxy and re-emits it as far-infrared photons, which excites the water molecules. This creates water emissions which scientists can observe.

The water molecules appear in blue, while carbon monoxide appears in purple.

Water is the third most abundant molecule in the universe after molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide, but scientists were surprised to see water molecules so early on in the universe.

SPT0311-58 galaxy with water spectra
The gravitational lensing effect made it easier to spot the molecules in this distant galaxy.ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. DAGNELLO (NRAO)
HERE’S THE BACKGROUND — The galactic pair are located in an era known as the Epoch of Reionization.

The Epoch of Reionization marks the end of the universe’s dark ages and refers to the period in the universe’s timeline when neutral hydrogen was reionized. Before this, neutral hydrogen caused interstellar space to be opaque, blocking light from extending far. This marked the arrival of the first large galaxies.

This period took place when the universe was approximately 780 million years old, only five percent of its current age (scientists estimate the universe to be around 13.8 billion years old).

If the first galaxies were just starting to emerge, the latest discovery has scientists wondering how these molecules were able to form so quickly.

“How has so much dust and gas accumulated so early on in the universe?” Jarugula says. “The dust you get is mostly from stars, which are pulsating and giving out their outer layer of dust into the galaxy.”

“So you need a good amount of stars to produce this dust,” she adds.

WHAT’S NEXT — Scientists are not sure where else the dust could have come from, or the initial stars from which the dust may have formed.

These ancient galaxies formed stars at a rate thousands of times that of the Milky Way, according to Jarugula. Therefore, studying distant galaxies informs scientists just how many stars were being produced and the rate at which gas in early galaxies was converted into stars.

By observing these galaxies, scientists can turn back to their models of the early universe and constrain its properties.

“So one galaxy is not gonna answer the question,” Jarugula says. “It’s going to be a statistic of galaxies, which will be helpful in constraining such models and answering the physics of how the conditions were in that early universe.”
Source: https://www.inverse.com/science/the-most-important-chemical-for-life-found-in-faraway-galaxy

Rubbish

The future is the universe!!!

K

You wont see the lying Righteousness moniker here.

That bad news wench sees scientific news that proves how minute our earth is in the scheme of things but instead of commenting, scampers away like a rat, waiting only for when a building will collapse or when hunger will kill hundreds before he edifies his blood sucking god.

Ewu

This looks like the promise land, we can see it but we can't enter it.

1 light year is equal to 9.4 trillion kilometers

And the distance of this planet is 12 billion light years away.

All this is faraway from our milky way Galaxy.

We are like dust, we are nothing compared to the cosmos

Cool

CUMIN:
This looks like the promise land, we can see it but we can't enter it.

1 light is equal to 9.4 trillion kilometers

And the distance of this planet is 12 billion light years away.

All in this our milky way Galaxy.

we need to be quick with research to inhabit other planets in case something ugly happens to earth.

E go be

CUMIN:
This looks like the promise land, we can see it but we can't enter it.

1 light year is equal to 9.4 trillion kilometers

And the distance of this planet is 12 billion light years away.

All in this our milky way Galaxy.

our universe is actually multi verse

engrchykae:
our universe is actually multi verse

And our planet earth is like a particles in the grand scheme of things.

dandig:
we need to be quick with research to inhabit other planets in case something ugly happens to earth.

it’s located in another galaxy, not Milky Way. And the most amazing part if that the universe is 13 billion years old.

Mainstream scientists are nothing but bold face pathological liars. There's nothing like a distant planet. The earth is TOTALLY A CLOSED system. Nothing comes in and nothing goes out. Yes the earth is FLAT.

12.88billion light years

How far is Heaven please?

naso e dey start oo

Mtchew

dandig:
we need to be quick with research to inhabit other planets in case something ugly happens to earth.

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Good idea, but don't you think humans will eventually destroy that planet with their mischievous ways? As sweet as earth is they are destroying it.

If there is water there, then the probability that life form exist there is high.

CUMIN:
This looks like the promise land, we can see it but we can't enter it.

1 light year is equal to 9.4 trillion kilometers

And the distance of this planet is 12 billion light years away.

All in this our milky way Galaxy.

12 billion light years away is far, far away from our milky way galaxy.

dandig:
we need to be quick with research to inhabit other planets in case something ugly happens to earth.

The trouble here is that distances to all planets suspected to be habitable can be reckoned in tens of light-years.

CUMIN:
And our planet earth is like a particles in the grand scheme of things.

there is a star in the constellation of Hercules that if the star is hollow,it will contain hundreds of our Sun,but do you know that our earth is as a grain of sand compared to the Sun.
Now how vast is the universe?

engrchykae:
there is a star in the constellation of Hercules that if the star is hollow,it will contain hundreds of our Sun,but do you know that our earth is as a grain of sand compared to the Sun.
Now how vast is the universe?

If people can grasp the vastness of the space, they will reconsider the notion of how important they are.

saaron:
Mainstream scientists are nothing but bold face pathological liars. There's nothing like a distant planet. The earth is TOTALLY A CLOSED system. Nothing comes in and nothing goes out. Yes the earth is FLAT.

How much is tin foil these days?

CUMIN:
If people can grasp the vastness of the space, they will reconsider the notion of how important they are.

BUT THERE ARE MORE CONNECTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY THAN THERE IS IN THE UNIVERSE

engrchykae:
BUT THERE ARE MORE CONNECTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY THAN THERE IS IN THE UNIVERSE

I disagree. The human body connection is finite. The amount of star in the multiverse is infinite.

CUMIN:
I disagree. The human body connection is finite. The amount of star in the multiverse is infinite.

do you know that our DNA is straightened will reach from the earth to the sun?
Go and take a look at the DNA.
An Egyptian King once said that the stars are 12000 in number.
Later we all know he lied.
I saw it on a YouTube channel that there are more connections in the human body than in the solar system

engrchykae:
do you know that our DNA is straightened will reach from the earth to the sun?
Go and take a look at the DNA.
An Egyptian King once said that the stars are 12000 in number.
Later we all know he lied.
I saw it on a YouTube channel that there are more connections in the human body than in the solar system

I still refuse to acknowledge this fact.

CUMIN:
I still refuse to acknowledge this fact.

does it change the fact from being the fact?

Goldsplash:
SCIENTISTS JUST FOUND WATER IN THE MOST DISTANT PART OF THE UNIVERSE SO FAR
How it got there remains a mystery.

Source?

engrchykae:
does it change the fact from being the fact?

Your fact is still a proposition. Which hasn't been confirmed.

A001:
Source?

https://www.inverse.com/science/the-most-important-chemical-for-life-found-in-faraway-galaxy
https://flipboard.com/@inversedotcom/science-chill-9945lj8kz/scientists-just-found-water-in-the-most-distant-part-of-the-universe-so-far/a-XncVmFMuSB2kid3FJOonvQ%3Aa%3A1864310875-633d18c7f6%2Finverse.com
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211103084422.htm
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/11/03/water-discovered-galaxy-roughly-12-8-billion-light-years-away/6270213001/