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New 3D visualization highlights 5,000 galaxies revealed by Webb

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5,000 galaxies within a small portion of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey

video: This 3D visualization portrays about 5,000 galaxies within a small portion of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey, which gathered data from a region known as the Extended Groth Strip. As the camera flies away from our viewpoint, each second amounts to traveling 200 million light-years into the data set, and seeing 200 million years further into the past. The appearances of the galaxies change, reflecting the fact that more distant objects are seen at earlier times in the universe, when galaxies were less developed. The video ends at Maisie’s Galaxy, which formed only 390 million years after the big bang, or about 13.4 billion years ago. Music: Spring Morning, Maarten Schellekens CC BY-NC 4.0 Download the video at Space Telescope Science Institute: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2023/126/01H4NSM0PHW800KW15FCQ1TBZV?news=true view more 

Credit: Credits: Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)


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