dr-becky 1 week ago
astrophysicist

The 3 Billion Years When Almost Every Star Was Born

Hidden in the incredible Hubble Deep Field image is something even more extraordinary than its beauty…

It is all of the astrophysics research that it made possible, including one of the most fundamental graphs in all astrophysics research, known as the "Madau plot". To us astrophysicists it’s incredible, because it shows when the Universe formed all its stars, revealing the majority formed around 10 billion years ago.


In this video, we will explore how we got from the Hubble Deep Field image to this amazing graph, and how (as always!) JWST is changing the story as we know it…

Dr. Becky
astrophysicist