ESO<p>Using ALMA, in which we are a partner, astronomers have found oxygen in the most distant known galaxy!</p><p>The galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is so far away that we see it as it was when the Universe was less than 300 million years old, about 2% of its present age.</p><p>Researchers had thought that this early on the Universe was still too young to have galaxies ripe with heavy elements. Yet this record-breaking detection indicates that JADES-GS-z14-0 has about 10 times more heavy elements than expected, making scientists rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe.</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2507/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">eso.org/public/news/eso2507/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>📷 ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Carniani et al./S. Schouws et al/JWST: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA)</p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrodon</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>