How Hubble's successor will give us a glimpse into the very first galaxies
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 08:40
in Astronomy & Space
A key feature of our understanding of cosmology is that the universe has a finite age. This means that there was a period of the universe's history when galaxies first formed. Studying this epoch has long been one of the tantalising goals of observational astronomy – it is a goal that is about to become a whole lot easier to reach.