Distant galaxies 'lift the veil' on the end of the cosmic dark ages
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 14:32
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers studying the distant Universe have found that small star-forming galaxies were abundant when the Universe was only 800 million years old, a few percent of its present age. The results suggest that the earliest galaxies, which illuminated and ionized the Universe, formed at even earlier times.