This red dot is the oldest galaxy we've ever seen! The latest data from the James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find the galaxy, which dates back to just 300 million years after the big bang
Naidu et al, P. Oesch, T. Treu, GLASS-JWST, NASA/CSA/ESA/STScI has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years.
Seeing some of the first galaxies to form after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago is one of the key goals of the JWST. When these emerged is currently unknown: the previous oldest identified galaxy, found by the Hubble Space Telescope, is
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