INTERESTING ENGINEERING - Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the most detailed map yet of the universe’s vast cosmic web, revealing how galaxies connected and evolved across 13.7 billion years of history.
The new map gives scientists an unprecedented look at the large-scale structure of the universe during its earliest stages. Researchers traced galaxy networks back to a time when the universe was only about one billion years old.
The cosmic web forms the backbone of the universe. It consists of enormous filaments of dark matter and gas that connect galaxies and galaxy clusters across space. Massive empty voids lie between these structures.
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, led the effort using data from COSMOS-Web, the largest survey conducted so far with the James Webb Space Telescope. The project mapped a region of sky roughly equal to the size of three full Moons.