{"id":263,"date":"2007-10-10T22:42:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-05-23T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:59:30","slug":"when-searching-for-early-galaxies-it-pays-to-look-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"When searching for early galaxies, it pays to look twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/node\/1255\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Infant stars\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/83\/Sig06-026.jpg\/800px-Sig06-026.jpg\" alt=\"Infant stars\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infant stars (pink) in the Serpens region, captured by NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope (only somewhat relevant, but still cool).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, an international team of astronomers have found nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the early universe\u2013the building blocks of today\u2019s larger, older galaxies. Composed of millions of brilliant blue stars, each infantile galaxy is one-hundredth to one-thousandth as large as our Milky Way galaxy. They formed about 12.5 billion years ago \u2013 just 1 billion years after the \u201cBig Bang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such galaxies are consistent with the conventional model of galactic formation, which holds that larger galaxies are formed when younger, smaller, less-massive galaxies merge. The sighting thus offers some much-needed support for the \u201chierarchical model,\u201d which has become ever more contentious in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asunews.asu.edu\/node\/1255\" target=\"_blank\">ASU astronomers help locate obscure galaxies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, an international team of astronomers have found nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the early universe\u2013the building blocks of today\u2019s larger, older galaxies. Composed of millions of brilliant blue stars, each infantile galaxy is one-hundredth to one-thousandth as large as our Milky Way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When searching for early galaxies, it pays to look twice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,121,74,3,57,13],"tags":[126,124,79,25,83,125],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-imaging","category-physics","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-galaxies","tag-hubble","tag-nasa","tag-nature","tag-remote-sensing","tag-spitzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}