Gazing Into the Past With TIME

May 18, 2026 Universe Today

Gazing Into the Past With TIME
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/dQFtfB4)

This illustration shows the early Universe's progression into the Epoch of Reionization. This is when the first stars and galaxies ionized hydrogen and changed the Universe from opaque to translucent. The new TIME instrument is poised to study this time with a new technique. Image Credit: ESA / C. Carreau. LICENCE: ESA Standard Licence

How can astronomers observe ancient galaxies when they're so challenging to resolve? By looking at a whole bunch of them at once in a single spectral line and seeing how it changes over time. That's what a new instrument called the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME) does.

May 18, 2026 at 10:24PM
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