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Express Tribune
22-03-2025
- Science
- Express Tribune
Oxygen detected in galaxy just 300 million years after big bang
This image shows the precise location in the night sky of the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, an extremely tiny dot in the Fornax constellation. As of today, this is the most distant confirmed galaxy we know of. Its light took 13.4 billion years to reach us and shows the conditions of the Universe when it was only 300 million years old. The inset of the image shows a close-up of this primordial galaxy as seen with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The inset is overlaid on an image taken with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Carniani et al./S. Schouws et al/JWST: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA) Listen to article Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery, made using the ALMA telescope, suggests galaxies formed and matured far more rapidly than previously believed. JADES-GS-z14-0, discovered in 2024, is the farthest confirmed galaxy observed, with its light traveling 13.4 billion years to reach Earth. Scientists expected the early universe to lack heavy elements, but findings show this galaxy contains significantly more oxygen than anticipated, indicating rapid star formation and chemical enrichment. The breakthrough, reported by two independent research teams, provides a more precise distance measurement of the galaxy and challenges conventional timelines of galaxy evolution. Scientists highlight the synergy between the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in pushing the boundaries of early cosmic discoveries. Experts say this finding could reshape our understanding of how galaxies formed and evolved in the universe's infancy.
Arab News
06-03-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Russia ships diesel to Syria on tanker under US sanctions, data shows
According to LSEG data, the Barbados-flagged vessel Prosperity was loaded with about 37,000 metric tons of ultra-low sulfur dieselThe tanker is anchored near the Syrian port of Banias, LSEG shipping data showsMOSCOW/BEIRUT: Russia shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under US sanctions, the first known such direct supply to the Middle Eastern country in more than a decade, LSEG data final destination of the cargo is unclear. Russia has two main military installations in Syria: an air base in Hmeimim and a naval base in Tartous, integral to Russia's military reach in the Middle East and control over the bases is under threat following the sudden fall of Bashar Assad last year. Moscow has said it wanted to keep its hold over to LSEG data, the Barbados-flagged vessel Prosperity (previously known as Gabon-flagged NS Pride) was loaded with about 37,000 metric tons of ultra-low sulfur diesel at the Russian Baltic port of Primorsk on Feb. tanker is anchored near the Syrian port of Banias, LSEG shipping data shows. Fornax itself is also under the US sanctions. The company was not immediately available for sanctions on Russia since the start of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine have included measures aimed at limiting revenues from the country's huge oil and gas industry and weakening its ability to fund the military United States on January 10 added the Prosperity to the list of sanctioned vessels, which includes some 180 tankers, involved in the export of Russian oil products following its war in Ukraine. The EU and the UK followed suit on February of the US sanctions programs may result in civil and, in some cases, criminal one such case, US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)announcedlast year a settlement of $7.45 million with the State Street Bank for 'apparent violations' of the Russia and Ukraine-related the same time, the US issued a six-month waiver to its Syria sanctions, focused on the energy sector and financial transfers to Syrian governing oil ministry officials did not immediately respond to text messages seeking comment. Russia's energy ministry declined to is the first direct diesel shipment from Russia to Syria since at least 2013, according to LSEG also issued an import tender for 20,000 tons of LPG and was seeking to import oil as no crude shipments have arrived from Iran, its key supplier, since November, according to data from shipping analytics firm has two oil refineries, located in Homs and Banias, which ceased operating after Assad's shipped a diesel cargo to Syria onboard a tanker under US sanctions, the first known such direct supply to the Middle Eastern country in more than a decade, LSEG data showed. (AP)
