Columbia: New Research Shows That Most Early Galaxies Looked Like Breadsticks Rather Than Pizza Pies or Dough Balls
January 18, 2024
January 18, 2024
NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- Columbia University issued the following news:
Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks--and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough. "Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions," explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University, and the lead author o . . .
Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks--and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough. "Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions," explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University, and the lead author o . . .