Green pea and cosmic dawn galaxies compared (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Green pea and cosmic dawn galaxies compared

Caption

A green pea galaxy imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is shown alongside an infrared picture of an early pea captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. At left is J122051+491255, a green pea about 170 million light-years away that’s about 4,000 light-years across, a typical size. At right is an early pea known as 04590, whose light has taken 13.1 billion years to reach us. Compensating for the cluster’s gravitational lensing effect and the galaxy’s greater distance to us, 04590 is even more compact, comparable to the smallest nearby green peas.

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SDSS and NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

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