The James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope smashes its own record for detecting the most distant known galaxy.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Pegvn

  • someguy3@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Called JADES-GS-z14-0, the collection of stars was spied as it was a mere 290 million years after the Big Bang.

    Put another way - if the Universe is 13.8 billion years old, it means we’re observing the galaxy when the cosmos was only 2% of its current age.

    Good article though worth the read.