A deep-field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope containing thousands of distant galaxies
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Astronomers have confirmed that a distant galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the earliest ever seen, giving us a window on galaxy formation when the universe was in its infancy.
Rohan Naidu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues used JWST to examine a galaxy called MoM-z14, which was first spotted in 2023.
Since it launched in 2021, JWST has detected galaxies…
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Publish date : 2025-05-20 18:00:00
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