Researchers have found 56 'Ultra-red Flattened Objects' using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. These galaxies, hidden by dust and debris, are similar to the Milky Way but emit mostly infrared radiation, revealing that our knowledge of galaxies is still evolving.
READ MORE:Astronomers have discovered mysterious 'UFO galaxies' that appear as red, glowing disc-shaped objects in the blackness of space.
Drawing on these images and computer simulations, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder suggested that UFO galaxies are similar in size and shape to the Milky Way but are 'much dustier.' Above, two images depicting the same region of space show how the 'UFO galaxies' evaded detection from past telescopes. The top image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope failed to spot the infrared heat signal that the James Webb Space Telescope image, below it, picked up
Each of these massive, red light- and infrared radiation-emitting galaxies, the researchers discovered, contains roughly 50 times more dust than our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The results provided a clear indication that the faint red light emitted by these UFO galaxies is due to masking by dust and debris—rather than the faint light typical of very distant galaxies billions of light-years away, which are thought to have formed during the universe's earliest epochs.
Above, another bright-red UFO galaxy taken by James Webb. 'It tells us that maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought,' the study's lead author Justus Gibson said
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