New Delhi: An international team of astronomers have measured the temperature of one of the most distant star factories known, a galaxy designated as Y1 at a distance of 13 billion lightyears from the Earth. The galaxy was formed within 600 million years of the big bang. A paper describing the research has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . The observations were conducted by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) with JWST directly imaging the galaxy in infrared light. The research reveals a new, extreme type of star factory previously unknown to science.

The dust in the galaxy has absorbed the energetic light of newborn stars, and is reemitting them. The first generations of stars to be formed in the universe were born in condi

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