We take for granted, today, that the Universe is transparent to light, and that the light from distant objects can travel unimpeded through space before reaching our eyes.

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was born when the universe was about 380,000 years old. Before this time, space was filled with hot plasma that did not allow light to travel very far without ...

Universe Is More Transparent To High-energy Radiation Than Previously Assumed. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 07 / 080709212745.htm ...

Scientists from the Institute of Physics of Cantabria and the University of Cambridge may have discovered an example of a cosmic defect, a remnant from the Big Bang called a texture. If confirmed ...

Explaining why the universe can be 'transparent': Universe's reionization is based on a galaxy's dust content. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 ...

The neutral atoms that hide the galaxies are split apart by the UV light, eventually rendering the Universe transparent. Related Stories. This process is known as the Epoch of Reionization, ...

Looking at those early galaxies, which existed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, the team saw that most of the gas in the universe was somewhere between opaque and transparent. But ...

Home / Explaining Why The Universe Can Be Transparent. Posted in Press Release Explaining Why The Universe Can Be Transparent by SpaceRef September 12, 2016 July 15, 2024.

The matter in the universe, it seems, dazzles in much the same way. In this video, How the Big Bang Governs the Texture of Our Universe, ...

Dwarf Galaxies May Be Responsible for Making the Universe Transparent Scientists used the Webb telescope and a natural gravity mirror to probe the 'era of reionization.' By Ryan Whitwam March 5, 2024 ...

All of this would be impossible if the Universe weren’t transparent to light. But, at the same time, two other things are also true. First, we cannot see infinitely far away; there’s a limit ...