3D Animation of Most Distant Galaxy Proto-supercluster COSMOS-z3.1-A
This animation shows a 3D model of the newly discovered galaxy proto-supercluster named COSMOS-z3.1-A. A proto-supercluster is a loose collection of galaxies that will one day coalesce into a stable ‘cluster-of-clusters’ of galaxies. Having been observed when the Universe was only 2.1 billion years old, COSMOS-z3.1-A is the earliest, most distant proto-supercluster ever found, and it boasts an impressive mass 5,000 times that of the Milky Way galaxy.
The light blue circles represent galaxies that are confirmed members of COSMOS-z3.1-A. The blue-to-purple gradient of the clouds surrounding them represents the density of galaxies throughout the proto-supercluster.
COSMOS-z3.1-A was discovered using data from the One-hundred-deg2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) survey. This survey is conducted with the DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the NSF Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile, a program of NSF NOIRLab.
To map the proto-supercluster in 3D, spectra were acquired using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the NSF Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona, a Program of NSF NOIRLab, and the DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) on the Keck II telescope on Maunakea in Hawai‘i.
This 3D model was created using Blender.
Acknowledgment: The original version of this 3D model was created by A. Ortiz (Purdue)
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF NOIRLab)
Motion Graphics: R. Proctor
Duration: 26 seconds
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