A group of astronomers at Leiden University, Netherlands, discovered a new distant Milky Way-like galaxy, which they have named REBELS-25.

This discovery could change the understanding of how galaxies form, according to the researchers, and they indicate that it could be younger than the Milky Way. They add that “it shares its rotation and structure, instead of appearing disordered and chaotic like other early galaxies.”

According to the researchers, the light reaching our planet from REBELS-25 “was emitted just 700 million years after the universe formed 13.8 billion years ago, a surprisingly short time for it to have become so orderly.”

To observe the rotation and structure of the new galaxy, astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile. This work yielded data on more developed features “such as spiral arms, and they plan to carry out further observations to confirm whether they actually exist.”

Andrew Blain, professor of astrophysics at the University of Leicester (UK), highlighted the role of the ALMA telescope in this discovery, stressing that in the past something like this had only been achieved in simulations.

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Since last week, several Latin American countries were on alert for the approach of a Chinese space rocket that was heading towards Earth.

The Long March 5B was around 30 meters high and a little over 20 tons in weight. Days ago it completed its mission to bring the first module of the Chinese space station, the Tianhe, into orbit. The central stage of the rocket failed to return once it left the station in orbit, so it ended up orbiting the Earth until it reentered the atmosphere.

Since the news was given, different groups of astronomers and amateurs in this sector were monitoring and trying to completely predict the trajectory of this rocket.

The spaceship finally crashed into the Indian Ocean, very close to the Maldives, specifically at the coordinates 2.47 degrees east longitude and 2.65 degrees north latitude.

China’s Manned Space Engineering Office said the “vast majority” of the debris burned when it re-entered the atmosphere. The confirmed re-entry thus ends the days of surveillance by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Although there has been no damage, many experts and especially from the United States see this act as reckless.

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Source: Xataka

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