Pan on most distant galaxy proto-supercluster (VIDEO)

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Caption

This video pans across the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A. A proto-supercluster is a loose collection of galaxies that will one day coalesce into a stable ‘cluster-of-clusters’ of galaxies. Having been observed when the Universe was only 2.1 billion years old, COSMOS-z3.1-A is the earliest, most distant proto-supercluster ever found, and it boasts an impressive mass 5000 times that of the Milky Way Galaxy.

COSMOS-z3.1-A was discovered using data from the One-hundred-deg2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey. This survey is conducted with the DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the NSF Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, a program of NSF NOIRLab.

The members of the proto-supercluster are difficult to see in this image due to their expansive distribution against a crowded background. View this annotated version of the image to see the members of COSMOS-z3.1-A. See an animated 3D model of COSMOS-z3.1-A here.

Credit

CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/DSS2/N. Bartmann/E. Slawik Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab) Music: Produced by Konstantino Polizois

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