29 January 2018
Astronomers discover a fossil of the Reionisation era
... constrain that the main burst of star formation lasted for around 0.6 Gyr (billion year). Whether or not Sextans stopped star formation early due to processes linked to the ultraviolet (UV) cosmic reionisation, or if it is mainly due to local causes...
01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... of these life essential elements, in an object known as B14-65666 located 13 billion light-years away in the constellation Sextans. After a further analysis of the data, combined with previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... 10 percent of the General Observer Programme is dedicated to studying the COSMOS field, a small patch of sky in the constellation Sextans used for studying galaxy evolution. Here, astronomers hope to detect the light from tens of thousands of new...
