QUT has announced the top 25 entries for the Research in Focus competition with Astrophysics MPhil Candidate, Georgia Hartzenberg’s entry “A Window Into the Early Universe” being shortlisted. The public will soon have a say in who wins the people’s choice award. More information is available by visiting the competition site:
https://www.qut.edu.au/research/why-qut/research-in-focus
This image is a window into the early universe, with this particular patch of sky representing the ZFOURGE COSMOS legacy field. The field shows galaxies when the universe was between 1.8 to 2 billion years old. Galaxies coloured red are quiescent, while those coloured blue and orange indicate the star-forming and dusty star-forming populations, respectively. Galaxies that host Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), are shown as stars. Using an algorithm to search for environments, Georgia created a surface density map for this early cosmological epoch. In addition to this, Georgia highlights a distant candidate galaxy cluster (circled in the image).