James Webb Telescope Captures Early Galaxies

Since it was first calibrated and began capturing images the James Webb Space Telescope has exceeded expectations, and allowed astronomers to peer farther than humanity has ever been able to see into the universe. An international team of researchers, led by Rohan Naidu of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Marco Castellano of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, Italy, have discovered two bright galaxies which they think were formed approximately 450 million and 350 million years after the Big Bang. "With Webb, we were amazed to find the most distant starlight that anyone had ever seen, just days after Webb released its first data," said Naidu. Researchers believe this observation will aid them in locating other early galaxies.

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