The majority of galaxies exist within colossal structures, known of as clusters, wherein typically thousands of galaxies and intergalactic material are gravitationally bound.
A team of researchers from the UK, US and Chile have released a new study searching for galaxies throughout the cosmos which share similar features and characteristics to our own, the milky way.
The cosmic optical background (COB) makes up a small section of the diffuse extragalactic background radiation (DEBRA), which is a photon field permeating all of space.
Dr Sergey Yurchenko is currently a professor at the University College London, and has recently been involved with the series of publications that analyse the high-resolution spectroscopic data gathered by the James Webb