The Brighter Side of News: Scientists think they discovered what existed before the Big Bang…

#Darkmatter has baffled physicists for nearly a century, quietly shaping our #universe 's unseen framework. Invisible yet influential, it provides the gravity necessary to hold #galaxies together... #science #space #physics #bigbang

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/the-brighter-side-of-news-scientists-think-they-discovered-what-existed-before-the-big-bang/

Most of the galaxies in the universe rotate in the same direction. Why this happens highlights a gap in our understanding of how the universe works. "It is still not clear what causes this to happen, but there are two primary possible explanations," says astronomer Lior Shamir of Kansas State University. @ScienceAlert explores both:

https://flip.it/r0lG1-

Oh my... it's full of Galaxies!

Video zoom animation of the Deep Field South taken by ESA Euclid Space Telescope

Full size: https://flic.kr/p/2qTEFJk
Zoomable image & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2qTFE4L

Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/AndreaLuck CC BY

Latest data release available on: https://eas.esac.esa.int/sas
Filters: VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y

So last night we put our #Dwarf3 telescopes on the studio roof at the back of the house, loaded up some schedules, and let them go all, night.

Inspired by @malcircuit 's post a little while ago, one of the targets I programmed in was Markarian's Chain, a string of galaxies.

This is 170x60s@gain 60, post processed using the automated online denoising tool that Dwarf have made available, and finished off in #Snapseed

Webb reveals unexpected complex chemistry in primordial galaxy

(... what we think of as the "first billion years" of the universe probably took a more billion years than that)

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-webb-reveals-unexpected-complex-chemistry.html

(21 Mar) Behold ‘Big Wheel’: An Unusually Monstrous Galaxy From the Early Universe

Astronomers using the Webb Space Telescope spotted the gigantic—and growing—primordial galaxy.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/yd39h
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/l8eGI ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/oo0er

#astronomy #galaxies #space-&-spaceflight #the-universe #webb-space-telescope

(21 Mar) Behold ‘Big Wheel’: An Unusually Monstrous Galaxy From the Early Universe https://s.faithcollapsing.com/yd39h Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/l8eGI ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/oo0er #astronomy #galaxies #space-&-spaceflight #the-universe #webb-space-telescope

Forecast noted cloudy last night. Took a peak outside this morning and was able to sneak in 30 minutes of telescope time. Decided to observe some #galaxies i have observed before. Here is #m104 #SombreroGalaxy . #unistellar #odysseypro #space #astronomy #amateur

Hubble Captures a Neighbor’s Colorful Clouds https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-a-neighbors-colorful-clouds/ #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #MagellanicClouds #TheUniverse

(19 Mar) Euclid’s First Big Data Drop Maps 26 Million Galaxies to Illuminate the Dark Cosmos

The mission’s first large set of survey data is a treasure trove for clues about the history of the universe.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/v43lu
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/lxcfu ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/6fnm0

#esa #euclid-space-telescope #galaxies #space-&-spaceflight

[Zoom on the #CosmicWeb] Have you dived into the deep fields of #Euclid revealed this Wednesday by the @ec_euclid ? Have you navigated between the thousands of #galaxies of different shapes, sizes, colors and masses? So many objects, near and far, fill our #Universe! https://sky.esa.int/esasky/?hide_welcome=true&hide_banner_info=true&hips=DES-DR2+ColorIRG&sci=false&layout=esasky&euclid_image=EDFS

What if their spatial distribution could tell us something about two mysterious components : #DarkMatter and #DarkEnergy? This is the gamble taken by the scientists involved in the Euclid mission. To do so, they've designed some unrivalled #instruments: a camera with great depth of field and high resolution records the variety of shapes and spatial distribution of galaxies, while a #spectrometer coupled with a #photometer can determine the distances and masses of galaxies ...

Alain Blanchard, professor at the University of Toulouse and researcher at IRAP, comments on the consortium's first-ever publication of scientific data: https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2025/03/euclid-telescope-reports-first-results/

[Zoom sur la #ToileCosmique] Avez-vous plongé dans les champs profonds d' #Euclid révélés ce mercredi par le @ec_euclid ? Avez-vous navigué entre ces milliers de #galaxies de formes, de dimensions, de couleurs, de masses différentes ? Tant d'objets proches et lointains tapissent notre #Univers ! https://sky.esa.int/esasky/?hide_welcome=true&hide_banner_info=true&hips=DES-DR2+ColorIRG&sci=false&layout=esasky&euclid_image=EDFS

Et si leur distribution spatiale nous renseignait sur ces deux composantes mystère que sont la #MatièreNoire et l' #EnergieNoire ? C'est le pari qu'ont fait les scientifiques impliqués dans la mission Euclid. Pour ce faire, il ont conçus des #instruments hors pair : un appareil photo doté d'une grande profondeur de champ et d'une résolution élevée enregistre la variété de formes ainsi que la distribution spatiale des galaxies, tandis qu'un #spectromètre doublé d'un #photomètre permet de déterminer les distances ainsi que les masses des galaxies ...

Alain Blanchard, professeur à l'Université de Toulouse et chercheur à l'IRAP, commente la toute première publication de données scientifiques par le consortium : https://www.irap.omp.eu/2025/03/le-telescope-euclid-rapporte-ses-premiers-resultats/

Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Dwarf galaxy discovery forces rethink of cosmic evolution

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-small-faint-unexpected-lot-ways.html

Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2507/
#ycombinator #ESO #eso_org #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astronomie #Suedsternwarte #telescopes #detectors #comets #planets #stars #galaxies #nebulae #universe #NTT #VLT #VLTI #ALMA #ELT #La_Silla #Paranal #Garching #Chile

#einstein #alberteinstein #physics #space #darkmatter #darkenergy #astronomy #galaxies #stars #spacetime #discovery #technology #science #nasa #esa #gravity #relativity #theoryofrelativity #universe #cosmos #expansion #bigbang
The article doesn’t say too much, but is it surprising to find the universe may be more complicated than we currently think it is?

Dark Energy experiment challenges Einstein's theory of Universe https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geldjjge0o

Location of Euclid Deep Fields on Gaia and Planck sky map

#Astronomy #Darkmatter #Galaxies #Galaxies,distant #Galaxy #Galaxyclusters #Gravity #Nebula

7 new pictures from ESA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=12&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250320064204

My mind is still a bit blown from #Euclid telescope images last night.

When I zoomed in on a tiny patch of sky — field of view: 7.1' x 3.6, which is about the size of a grain of rice held at arms length — there was so much to see.

Walls and walls of galaxies. And then more walls of galaxies behind this.

Each galaxy hosts hundreds of billions of stars and there are millions of them, all, in this tiny field of view.

We are tiny tiny creatures.