First observations of Cosmic Web filaments

Um dos filamentos de gás ionizado (a azul) observados pelo MUSE, no campo ultra profundo do Hubble (imagem de fundo), que se estende por 15 mil milhões de anos-luz. (Crédito: Roland Bacon (CNRS/CRAL), ESO e NASA).

With observations from the MUSE spectrograph, a team or researchers, including from
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), has managed to observe cosmic filaments, when the Universe was about 15% of its current age.

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