The galaxy is 13.28 billion light-years from Earth

New research results reveal that the MACS1149-JD1 galaxy can be formed after the Big Bang is only about 500 million light-years away.

Cosmologists at University College London yesterday announced the enlargement and new findings of the MACS1149-JD1 galaxy, the farthest galaxy ever discovered and one of the first galaxies. First of the universe, AFP reported.

Enlarged image of the MACS1149-JD1 galaxy taken by two VLT and Hubble telescopes.(Photo: ESO / NASA).

Based on data from the very large telescopes and systems (VLT) - an optical telescope complex of the European Space Research Organization in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), the team has moved closer now comes the "cosmic dawn" - the formation of the first galaxies later.

By using redshift measurements (the measurement of the distance of the galaxy by the shift of light to the red on their spectrum), scientists have identified the light from the galaxy MACS1149-JD1 Left Land about 13.28 billion light years. This means that the team is observing one of the oldest galaxies, formed after the Big Bang only about 500 million light-years away.

According to Space, the team also uses infrared data from and from NASA to observe and study the brightness of MACS1149-JD1. The star formation of this ancient galaxy reveals some stars even formed much earlier, about 250 million years after the Big Bang.

Another important finding published by scientists is the presence of oxygen in galactic gas clouds."Oxygen is only produced from the star and then released into the clouds of gas in the galaxy when the star dies. So the presence of oxygen inside the galaxy MACS1149-JD1 shows one or more Star generation ever formed and died earlier, " said Nicolas Laporte of University College London, a member of the research team.