The galaxy was spotted as astronomers and scientists studied what's known as 'Cosmic Dawn.'
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted the earliest and most distant galaxy known to researchers, according to a news release from the space agency. The galaxy was spotted as astronomers and scientists studied what's known as 'Cosmic Dawn,' or the era right after the Big Bang when early galaxies were formed.
'Seeing this spectrum was incredibly exciting for the whole team,' said Stefano Carniani from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and Kevin Hainline from the University of Arizona in the NASA news release. 'This discovery was not just a new distance record for our team; the most important aspect of JADES-GS-z14-0 was that at this distance, we know that this galaxy must be intrinsically very luminous.
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