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One of the most exciting developments in modern astronomy is how astronomers can now observe and study the earliest galaxies in the Universe. This is due to next-generation observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with its sophisticated suite of infrared instruments and spectrometers, and advances in interferometry – a technique that combines multiple sources of light to get a clearer picture of astronomical objects. Thanks to these observations, astronomers can learn more about how the earliest galaxies in the Universe evolved to become what we see today. Using Webb and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team led by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) successfully detected atomic transitions coming from galaxy GHZ2 (aka. GLASS-z12), located 13.4 billion light-years away. Their study not only set a new record for the farthest detection of these elements This is the first time such emissions have been detected in galaxies more than 13 billion light-years away and offers the first direct insights into the properties of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. The galaxy was first identified in July 2022 by the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) observing program using the JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). A month later, follow-up observations by ALMA confirmed that the galaxy had a spectrographic redshift of more than z = 12, making it one of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever observed. The exquisite observations by both observatories have allowed astronomers to gain fresh insights into the nature of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Credit: C. Padilla, NRAO/AUI/NSF Jorge Zavala, an astronomer at the East Asian ALMA Regional Center at the NAOJ, was the lead author of this study. As he explained in an ALMA-NAOJ press release: “We pointed the more than forty 12-m antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the 6.5-m James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for several hours at a sky position that would appear totally empty to the naked human eye, aiming to catch a signal from one of the most distant astronomical objects known to date. And [we] successfully detected the emission from excited atoms of different elements such as Hydrogen and Oxygen from an epoch never reached before.” Confirming and characterizing the physical properties of distant galaxies is vital to testing our current theories of galaxy formation and evolution. However, insight into their internal physics requires detailed and sensitive astronomical observations and spectroscopy – the absorption and emission of light by matter- allowing scientists to detect specific chemical elements and compounds. Naturally, these observations were challenging for the earliest galaxies, given that they are the most distant astronomical objects ever studied. Nevertheless, the ALMA observations detected the emission line associated with doubly ionized oxygen (O III), confirming that the galaxy existed about 367 million years after the Big Bang. Combined with data obtained by Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) instruments, the team was able to characterize this object effectively. Based on their observations, the team discovered that GHZ2 was experiencing extreme bursts of star formation 13.4 billion years ago under conditions that differ considerably from what astronomers have seen in star-forming galaxies over the past few decades. For instance, the relative abundance of heavier elements in this galaxy (metallicity) is significantly lower than that of most galaxies studied. This was expected given the dearth of heavier elements during the early Universe when Population III stars existed, which were overwhelmingly composed of hydrogen and helium. These stars were massive, hot, and short-lived, lasting only a few million years before they went supernova. Similarly, the team attributed GHZ2’s high luminosity to its Population III stars, which are absent from more evolved galaxies. The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen This luminosity is amplified by the fact that GHZ2, which is a few hundred million times the mass of the Sun, occupies a region of around 100 parsecs (~325 light-years). This indicates that the galaxy has a high stellar density similar to that of Globular Clusters observed in the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies. Other similarities include low metallicity, the anomalous abundances of certain chemicals, high star formation rates, high stellar mass surface density, and more. As such, studying galaxies like GHZ2 could help astronomers explain the origin of globular clusters, which remains a mystery. Said Tom Bakx, a researcher at Chalmers University, these observations could pave the way for future studies of ancient galaxies that reveal the earliest phases of galaxy formation: “This study is a crown on the multi-year endeavor to understand galaxies in the early Universe. The analysis of multiple emission lines enabled several key tests of galaxy properties, and demonstrates the excellent capabilities of ALMA through an exciting, powerful synergy with other telescopes like the JWST.” Further Reading: ALMA, AJL The post Webb and ALMA Team Up to Study Primeval Galaxy appeared first on Universe Today.

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling new ones. Currently, we’re marking the end of the Gaia mission, our best effort to understand the Milky Way. Gaia is an astrometry mission that’s built an impressive map of the Milky Way by taking three trillion observations of two billion individual objects in the galaxy, most of them stars, over an 11-year period. Measuring the same objects repeatedly means Gaia’s map is 3D and shows the proper motion of stars throughout the galaxy. Rather than a static map, it reveals the galaxy’s kinetic history and some of the changes it’s gone through. Gaia showed us our galaxy’s turbulent history, including the streams of stars stemming from past disruptive events. Image Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar We’ve waited a long time for such a detailed look at our galaxy. Radio astronomy, which gained momentum in the 1950s, helped us understand the structure of the Milky Way. Radio telescopes could see through intervening dust clouds and detect the distribution of hydrogen in the galaxy. In 1952, astronomers began the first major radio survey of the Milky Way. Astronomers theorized that the galaxy had a spiral structure, and finally, they detected the spiral arms, revealing the Milky Way’s basic structure. In a 1958 paper, the authors wrote that “The distribution of the hydrogen evidently shows great irregularities. Nevertheless, several arms can be followed over considerable lengths.” This figure shows the hydrogen distribution in the plane of the Milky Way’s disk. Though it appears outdated to our modern eyes and isn’t visually intuitive, it was exciting at the time. Image Credit: From “The galactic system as a spiral nebula” by Oort et al. 1958. Astronomers also used RR Lyrae and Cepheids, two types of variable stars with known intrinsic brightnesses (standard candles), to calculate their distances. This allowed them to trace the Milky Way’s structure. Globular clusters also helped astronomers map the Milky Way. In the 1980s, infrared telescopes like NASA’s IRAS peered through cosmic dust to help find features like the Milky Way’s central bar. Then, in 1989, the ESA’s Hipparcos mission was launched. Hipparcos was an astrometry mission and was Gaia’s predecessor. Though not nearly as precise, and though it only measured 100,000 stars, it was finally able to measure their proper motions. It revealed more details of the Milky Way and helped confirm its barred spiral form. It also provided some insights into our galaxy’s history and evolution. But astronomers craved more detailed knowledge. Gaia was launched in 2013 to meet this need, and it’s been a total success. Gaia is a tribute to ingenuity. We’re effectively trapped inside the Milky Way, and no spacecraft can get beyond it to capture an external view of the galaxy. Gaia has given us that view without ever leaving L2. While many prior efforts to trace the Milky Way’s structure depended on sampling select stellar populations, Gaia precisely measured the position and motion of almost two billion stars throughout the galaxy. Gaia’s map of the Milky Way has become iconic. This image is constructed from Gaia data that’s mapping two billion of the galaxy’s stars. It also mapped stars in the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. Image Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Gaia’s work has culminated in artist impressions of the Milky Way based on its voluminous data. These impressions show that the Milky Way has multiple arms and that they’re not as prominent as we thought. Gaia’s observations have given us a much more detailed and precise look at the Milky Way’s spiral arms. It has identified previously unknown structures in the arms, including fossil arms in the outer disk. These could be remnants of past tidal arms or distortions in the disk, or remnants of ancient interactions with other galaxies. Gaia has also found many previously unknown filamentary structures at the disk’s edge. The Gaia mission has also allowed us to finally see our galaxy from the side. We’ve learned that the galactic disk has a slight wave to it. Astronomers think this was caused by a smaller galaxy interacting with the Milky Way. The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy could be responsible for it. The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy has been orbiting the Milky Way for billions of years. According to astronomers, the three known collisions between this dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way have triggered major episodes of star formation, one of which may have given rise to our Solar System. Image Credit: ESA/Gaia Alongside the compelling science, artists have created illustrations based on Gaia data that really hit home. The stunning side view of our galaxy is one of the most accurate views of the Milky Way we’ve ever seen. This artist’s reconstruction of Gaia data shows the Milky Way’s central bulge, galactic disk, and outer reaches. Image Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Gaia has updated our understanding of the galaxy we live in and brought its history to life. Even if it had no more to offer beyond today, it would still be an outstanding, successful mission. But even though its mission is over, we still don’t have all of its data. Its final data release, DR5, will be available by the end of 2030. Who knows what else the mission will show us about our home, the Milky Way galaxy. The post The Most Accurate View of the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

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The age-old battle of whether TikTok fame equates to real-life success. Becoming a popular artist today is a much different landscape than it was 10 years ago. The rise in social media use makes smaller artists much more discoverable and allows you to share your music with a much wider audience. While those are some pros of social media with music, there are also some cons. You are not touring or spending time shaking hands with those who support your music and come to shows, and in some cases, you have record deals being offered to artists who have yet to even sing in front of a live audience. And don't even get us started on record labels using social media as a leverage point for artists to release songs. These days, everyone is chasing that viral moment... Because of this, artists always discuss the pros and cons of finding fame through a viral moment. Zach Top, arguably one of the hottest names in country music right now, has an interesting take on this. Last year, Top had a massive hit, "I Never Lie," which went viral on TikTok after its release, but Top had been working in the music space for years before that viral moment. Zach Top started performing with his siblings at age seven, playing guitar in their family bluegrass band. The group had a long run of performing as a band, and in the end, Top knew that this was his calling. Top reflects on his musical upbringing and how he thinks it shaped the rest of his career when chatting with Dale Brisby for the Rodeo Time Podcast. https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3gtnQpSRL/ "Yeah, we ran around 10 years. Luckily, I didn't ruin any relationships with my siblings 'cause I remember having... we had some brutal band practices. I was definitely the one that wanted it really bad, and I'd sit down there and play guitar three hours a day and then try and get them to, you know, do a little band practice for whatever show we had coming up or something. I was definitely an unpleasant little tyrant a lot of times, I'll say." Top knows more than anyone wanting so badly to have that big break. Still, he also thinks that if you don't get out on the road and workshop your music, relying on a viral moment or a viral hit is not the way to be set up for a fruitful and long career in the music industry. "Especially in this age of, you know, people going viral on TikTok, and if it goes big enough, they get a record deal out of it. But they've never played in front of 20 people before. It was just a 15-second video, you know, and that's not the case for all of them. But a lot of times, you see that, and I feel like they get to skip a lot of steps on the front end. That ends up probably hurting them later on and maybe damages the longevity of the career." When Top looks back on his early days on stage, he recognizes that they weren't perfect, but he's so thankful that he had so much stage time in his youth because it taught him how to become a true entertainer. Many people out there have incredible voices. However, a good voice does not equate to getting folks to buy tickets to shows, buy records, or become loyal fans. You must entertain a crowd while on stage to make those things happen. "I think I was lucky to get the opportunity to not just practice singing and playing for a long, long time, but yeah, be on stage in front of people, be behind a microphone, learn how to keep people entertained or engaged for 45 minutes or an hour, an hour and a half or however long it was. You know, we played bar gigs (that were) three or four hours or something. There's a lot more to the art of being a performer just than playing and singing good, and so I feel like I got a pretty advantageous little head start, starting as a kid just learning real quick." Top recalled his mother used to write "scripts" his family bluegrass band of stories to tell between songs or jokes to crack if the audience felt dry. That's a massive component of being a phenomenal artist. Or, if you're like Chris Stapleton, you don't have to say much because your guitar playing and singing make up for it... but he's in a league of his own. Everyone is entitled to their opinion on this matter, but Top does make some great points about the benefits of being a road dog. This lifestyle isn't for everyone, and if you have a voice and can survive away from family chasing dotted interstate lines, you'll make it. But if you don't have the grit for that lifestyle, the music industry will chew you up and spit you out. Check it out; Top begins talking about this around the 15-minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsfHGAtbgqk