{"id":20729,"date":"2025-07-16T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/?p=20729"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T12:45:15","slug":"alma-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-the-universes-first-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/alma-uncovers-hidden-structures-in-the-universes-first-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMA Uncovers Hidden Structures in the Universe\u2019s First Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almaobservatory.org\/en\/home\/\">ALMA<\/a>) have unveiled intricate internal structures within early galaxies\u2014just 1 billion years after the Big Bang\u2014as part of the CRISTAL survey.<\/p>\n<p>By tracing ionised carbon ([C\u202fII]) emission in 39 typical star-forming galaxies and combining it with Hubble and JWST imagery, the team has revealed: Clumps of star formation spanning thousands of light-years, extended cold gas envelopes beyond stellar regions\u2014fuel for future stars, and Signatures of rotational motion, hinting at early disk formation.<\/p>\n<p>ALMA\u2019s sensitivity sheds light on the complex \u201ccosmic dawn\u201d environments, transforming mere smudges of light into detailed portraits of galaxy evolution. This research was by Herrera-Camus et al. in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202553896\">Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almaobservatory.org\/en\/press-releases\/alma-reveals-hidden-structures-in-the-first-galaxies-of-the-universe\/\">ALMA release<strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Image<\/em><\/strong><em>: <\/em><em>A family portrait of galaxies from the CRISTAL survey. Red shows cold gas traced by ALMA\u2019s [CII] observations. Blue and green represent starlight captured by the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. Credit: ALMA (ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO) \/ HST \/ JWST \/ R. Herrera-Camus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have unveiled intricate internal structures within early galaxies\u2014just 1 billion years after the Big Bang\u2014as part of the CRISTAL survey. By tracing ionised carbon ([C\u202fII]) emission in 39 typical star-forming galaxies and combining it with Hubble and JWST imagery, the team has revealed: Clumps of star formation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20731,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20729\/revisions\/20731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radionet-org.eu\/radionet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}