John Mather Quotes

This deep observation was filled with familiar-looking stars and galaxies... We removed everything we knew---all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this infrared glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars.

- John Mather

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We removed everything we knew---all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this negative glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars. - John Mather

We're looking back to the first objects that formed after the Big Bang. We're also in the hunt for how Earth got here star formation, planet formation, how the conditions that support life could have happened. - John Mather

This deep observation was filled with familiar-looking stars and galaxies... We removed everything we knew---all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this infrared glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars. - John Mather