James Webb finds the oldest galaxy

by time news

Just a week after revealing the first images taken by James Webb, this space telescope, which is considered the most powerful of its kind, may have found the most distant and oldest galaxy ever observed, which formed 13.5 billion years ago.
The galaxy called “GLASS-z13” dates back 300 million years after the Big Bang, which is 100 million years older than any object ever observed, Rowan Naidoo of Harvard University’s Center for Astrophysics told AFP.
Naidoo is the main author of a study that analyzes data taken from what was monitored by “James Webb” and still is.
This data has been published online, making it available to space scientists around the world.
One of James Webb’s main tasks is to monitor the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
“Space discoveries are on the brink,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science. “Yes, I tend to praise only verified scientific results. But this discovery looks very promising.”
The galaxy was observed by James Webb’s “Nercam” instrument, and it was traced to the so-called “deep field”, which is a more comprehensive image taken with its display for a long time, with the aim of observing the light lights.
Among the characteristics that James Webb has, is that it works in infrared, the light emanating from the most distant objects, stretched and became “red”, and changed to such wavelengths that humans cannot see with the eye.

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