November 14, 2023

The galaxy cluster Abell 2744 and in the insets the galaxies UNCOVER z-13 and UNCOVER z-12.

An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports confirmations of two primordial galaxies studied within the UNCOVER survey. A team of researchers examined spectroscopic detections obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec instrument to obtain good estimates of the distance to the galaxies UNCOVER z-13 and UNCOVER z-12. These are follow-up observations that exploited the gravitational lens generated by the Abell 2744 galaxy cluster. According to the estimates, UNCOVER z-13 is approximately 13.51 billion light-years away while UNCOVER z-12 is approximately 13.48 billion light-years away.