Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 28 minutes ago
Delving deep into the history of our cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory scrutinised hundreds of thousands of star-forming galaxies, peering back in time to when the Universe was less than one billion years old. These observations probed the peak epoch of stellar production, about ten billion years ago, when galaxies were forming stars roughly ten times faster than their present counterparts.
Full story: Herschel's chronicles of galaxy evolution
http://sci.esa.int/herschel/59495-herschel-s-chronicles-of-galaxy-evolution
Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: T. Pyle & R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech); Galaxy formation simulation courtesy of Illustris Collaboration; Big Bang Timeline art courtesy of Rhys Taylor/rhysy.net
More information about this video can be found at http://sci.esa.int/herschel/59547-herschel-galaxy-evolution/
Delving deep into the history of our cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory scrutinised hundreds of thousands of star-forming galaxies, peering back in time to when the Universe was less than one billion years old. These observations probed the peak epoch of stellar production, about ten billion years ago, when galaxies were forming stars roughly ten times faster than their present counterparts.
Full story: Herschel's chronicles of galaxy evolution
http://sci.esa.int/herschel/59495-herschel-s-chronicles-of-galaxy-evolution
Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: T. Pyle & R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech); Galaxy formation simulation courtesy of Illustris Collaboration; Big Bang Timeline art courtesy of Rhys Taylor/rhysy.net
More information about this video can be found at http://sci.esa.int/herschel/59547-herschel-galaxy-evolution/
