Artist’s impression of galaxies at the end of the era of reionisation (artist’s impression)

This artist’s impression shows galaxies at a time less than a billion years after the Big Bang, when the Universe was still partially filled with hydrogen fog that absorbed ultraviolet light. New observations with the ESO Very Large Telescope are probing this important phase of the early Universe by studying the light from some of the most distant galaxies ever detected.

Credit:

ESO/M. Kornmesser

About the Image

Id:eso1138a
Type:Artwork
Release date:12 October 2011, 12:00
Related releases:eso1138
Size:2901 x 1923 px

About the Object

Name:Galaxies
Type:Early Universe : Galaxy
Early Universe : Cosmology
Category:Galaxies
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