HETDEX News
Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now They’ve Found It.
April 6, 2026

Astronomers using data from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have discovered tens of thousands of gigantic hydrogen gas halos, called “Lyman-alpha nebulae,” surrounding galaxies 10 billion to 12 billion years ago. Known as Cosmic Noon, this is an epoch in […]

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A Sea of Light: HETDEX Astronomers Reveal Hidden Structures in the Young Universe
March 3, 2026

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), have used data from the project to make the largest, most accurate 3D map yet of the light emitted by excited hydrogen in the early universe, 9 billion to 11 billion […]

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