early galaxies
Why Was it Tricky to Know the Distances to Galaxies JWST Was Seeing?
One of the chief objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study the formation and evolution of…
JWST Plucks One Single Star out of a Galaxy Seen 12.5 Billion Years Ago
Thanks to data obtained by Webb, astronomers have confirmed that MACS0647-star-1 is the second farthest star observed to date.
You’re Looking at One of the Farthest Confirmed Galaxies Found by JWST
Astronomers have confirmed the age of Maisie's galaxy, which existed when the Universe was just 390 million years old, making…
Here's How You Could Get Impossibly Large Galaxies in the Early Universe
A study by an Israeli team of astronomers offers a solution to the "impossibly massive" galaxies Webb observed.
JWST Sees a Galaxy Cluster Coming Together in the Early Universe
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s science goals is to help cosmologists understand how the first galaxies and galaxy…
This JWST Image Shows Gravitational Lensing at its Finest
The latest image release from the James Webb Space Telescope shows another beautiful field filled with galaxies and gravitational lenses
“The Universe Breakers”: Six Galaxies That are Too Big, Too Early
In the first data taken last summer with the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on the new James Webb Space Telescope,…
Astronomers Pin Down the Age of the Most Distant Galaxy: Seen 367 Million Years After the Big Bang
Staring off into the ancient past with a $10 billion space telescope, hoping to find extraordinarily faint signals from the…
Webb Completes its First “Deep Field” With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?
About 13 billion years ago, the stars in the Universe's earliest galaxies sent photons out into space. Some of those…
Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images “Almost Brought him to Tears.” We’ll see Them on July 12th
The first images taken by James Webb will be released in a little more than a week! According to NASA,…