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James Webb Space Telescope Discovers 2 Earliest Galaxies Ever Seen (Image)

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JADES-GS-z14-0 the earliest and most distant galaxy ever seen by humanity in a NIRCam image captured by the JWST

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one, but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing to break the records it previously set. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was about 300 million years after the Big Bang, existing at least 100 million years earlier than … Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope finds a dusty skeleton in the closet of this starburst galaxy

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A gif showing three views of a galaxy. The final image in the gif combines the previous two images.

Dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show The James Webb Space Telescopehis latest cosmic portrait. Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has a lot in common with our own. Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), orbiting satellite galaxy Milky Way. Both are small and … Read more

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