Webb Telescope Data Reveals Oldest Galaxy Ever Seen—And It's Not What Astronomers Expected

Summary

This article by Kiona Smith, writing for Inverse, makes the following points:

• The galaxy, dubbed GLASS-z13, is 13.5 billion light years away.
• The James Webb telescope saw the light from the galaxy as it looked just 300 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still very young.
• These new photos challenge critical ideas about what the early universe was like.
• The James Webb also discovered another surprisingly bright young galaxy, GLASS-z11, in the same relatively small patch of sky.
• Where astronomers previously only knew of one galaxy dating back to the first few hundred million years of the universe, now they know about three.

References

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• JUL 2022 The Webb Space Telescope Is a Time Machine—The Atlantic
• JUL 2022 Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images—Scientific American

Source: Inverse:

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