RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee to science • 9 days agoJWST finds distant galaxy with "impossible" light signature - Big Thinkexternal-linkmessage-square5 fedilinkarrow-up120
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minus-squarequarrk [he/him]hexbear2·9 days agoSome published discussion on this from February 2024 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02179-3 link
minus-squarequarrk [he/him]hexbear2·9 days agotl;dr one hypothesis is that regions dense with objects can effectively clear out the interstellar medium that would otherwise block its light. According to this paper, all the observed Lyman alpha emissions are from objects with nearby companions link
Some published discussion on this from February 2024
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02179-3
tl;dr one hypothesis is that regions dense with objects can effectively clear out the interstellar medium that would otherwise block its light. According to this paper, all the observed Lyman alpha emissions are from objects with nearby companions