Zooming-in on 9io9

This video takes us on a journey from our home in the Milky Way to a galaxy far, far away, 9io9. Using ALMA, astronomers have recently detected a galaxy-wide magnetic field in 9io9, making it the furthest ever detection of a galactic magnetic field. 9io9 is so far away its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was only 2.5 billion years old.
We first see the night sky in visible light, and then switch to infrared light when we finally reach 9io9. Here, the galaxy appears as a faint reddish arc curved around a bright nearby galaxy. We then see the ALMA image of 9io9 at millimetre wavelengths, with the orientation of the magnetic field indicated by overlaid curves.
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Credit:
ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/DESI/CFHT/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/J. Geach et al.

[@nelsonsoares2975]

With todays technology its easier to understand & believe what the great Carl Sagan said "that there are more stars than there are grains of sand here on Earth" .. to say this is mind boggling zooming is an understatement ... how can there be no other intelligent life forms out there , its impossible not to after watching this .

[@agvoic]

We need more of this

[@ESOobservatory]

We've got you covered! Check out our "Zoom into the Universe" playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLSZ2Jv0bEZHw7-AAXL-zCScj71nGamNe7

[@mortaltattaasasniperasagay861]

​@@ESOobservatoryThanks sir 🙏

[@nanciehurst1130]

That shows that it’s more to the universe than we know they’re still more to discover

[@nanciehurst1130]

Wow! just marvelous incredible.

[@SamiKotiranta]

That's quite a ZOOOOOOOOOM I must say🤯🤯🤯👍 Wondering how far those last galaxies in vid were???

[@ESOobservatory]

The light from the last galaxy, dubbed 9io9, took more than 11 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was just 2.5 billion years old, or about 20% of its current age.

[@CMONCMON007]

Thats where Star Wars takes place ❤

[@starpawsy]

No NGC galaxies visible here :(

[@alexa.davronov1537]

Insane.

[@prvkr]

I wanted to keep going

[@dwiatkin]

День Сентября. Почему вы вашим супер крутым телескопом не показываете разрушенные цивилизации прошлого на Луне - спутнике Земли?

[@dwiatkin]

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[@dwiatkin]

Все знают kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ6knpJqqLuki80 , что была космическая война. И на Луне могут быть руины кораблей и городов прошлого. Смысл скрывать прошлое?

[@VeilStar]

0:30 Just curious, what's up with the artifacts on what I assume are extremely bright spots? Is this some kind of value overflow where the a brightness value rolls over and gets clipped? How does that happen?

[@ESOobservatory]

It is indeed due to saturation, with the charge of a given pixel overflowing into adjacent pixels (an effect known as “blooming”).

[@ethan520427]

Well these are pictures on pictures am I not wrong at :26 you can see the next picture in frame being dropped in over the last and so on and so forth