Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the most distant galaxy we have ever recorded in the telescopes first batch of data.
. The most recent achievement comes just a week after Webb spotted the most distant galaxy we’d ever discovered. Now, the iconic space telescope has once again broken that record, capturing a red smudge of a galaxy estimated to be 35 billion light-years away.This image of SMACS 0723 has given astronomers a glimpse at some of the most distant galaxies ever discovered. Image source: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIon July 26th.
We haven’t confirmed the discovery of this new most distant galaxy just yet. And the research hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet. However, it has broken another provisional record set just last week by galaxy GLASS-z13. Astronomers believe that the galaxy existed 400 million years after the Big Bang.The galaxy NGC 1947 as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image source: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario Acknowledgement: L.
That’s because light has a very finite speed. As such, the farther away a galaxy or star is, the farther that light has had to travel. Thus, the older that light is. For additional context, if you were to put a telescope like the James Webb in that most distant galaxy, and then look at Earth, you’d be seeing the light from our Sun as it was millions of years before you looked towards it.
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