Early Galaxy (artist's impression) (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Early Galaxy (artist's impression)

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Artist’s visualization of an early galaxy and its surrounding gaseous environment. The orange structures represent metal-enriched gas being expelled from the galaxy, illustrating how young galaxies began dispersing heavy elements into their surroundings within the Universe’s first 500 million years. The visualization is based on publicly available FIRE-2 cosmological simulation data and is not a direct telescope image.

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Yongda Zhu

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