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About Galaxy Nurseries
How did galaxies form? What did the first galaxies look like? How did galaxies grow with time? These are some of the questions we hope to answer by studying galaxies at different epochs in the history of the Universe.
But first we have to find them, and measure the distance to them. Because light travels at a finite speed, a galaxy's distance will tell us also about the state Universe when the light was emitted.
With the WISPS survey, the Hubble Space Telescope scans regions of the sky searching for young galaxies at different epochs in the history of the Universe. These galaxies can be identified from their spectra. By measuring a galaxy's emission features, we can determine which galaxies are young, alive, and actively forming stars. Currently computers aren't very good at telling the difference between the real and bogus detections.
You can help improve our understanding of young galaxies and improve our detection algorithms by classifying detections as real or bogus.
The background image shows one small portion of a region of the sky searched with the Hubble Space Telescope. Credits: Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota), copyright WISP Consortium