It seems that NASA's James Webb telescope, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched and operates a million miles from Earth, will not cease to amaze us and break records for the most distant galaxies in the depths of the universe.

New record

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope, which was commissioned in December 2021, announced the discovery of what appears to be the most distant galaxy to date, only 235 million years away from the Big Bang.

However, this is not the first record that Webb has observed during the past short period. Astronomers had previously announced that they had observed a galaxy at a moment in time, only 330 million years away from the Big Bang, and then from another galaxy at a point 300 million years away from the Big Bang.

The record-breaking galaxy CEERS-93316 is part of an unprecedented view of the dark and mysterious parts of the beginning of the universe, and this discovery has been documented in a research paper led by astrophysicist Callum Donnan from the University of Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh). of Edinburgh) to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The importance of research in the early years of the universe is the time when everything was formed (NASA)

distant universe history

"James Webb has been designed to look farther into space and time than any other telescope before it, so it is not surprising that he may have discovered the most distant galaxy ever observed," Dunant says in the press release published on the University of Edinburgh's website on August 1. launch".

He added, "The galaxy known as "CEERS-93316" is about 35 billion light-years away, that is, it was only 235 million years away after the Big Bang, which is close to the time when the first galaxies are believed to have begun, and after about 135 Only a million years from the birth of the first stars.

The report, prepared by Science Alert, explains the importance of research in the first years of the universe's life after the Big Bang, as the time in which everything from antimatter, dark matter, stars, galaxies and dust was formed, and that because light takes time to move, it works It is a time machine, meaning that any faint light that reaches us from space carries with it the details of an ancient event in the depth of the history of the universe, and the more dim the light, it indicates a further era in the history of the universe.

The report also states that the expansion of the universe has led to the expansion of the most energetic waves to turn into faint rays closer to the infrared parts of the spectrum, which makes reading the most visible objects difficult, which makes detailed reconstruction of that period in the life of the universe very difficult.

Light works as a time machine, meaning that any faint light that reaches us carries the details of an ancient event (NASA)

promising tool

For this reason, James Webb is a promising tool for studying the dawn of the early universe, as it can capture near-infrared and infrared light at a higher resolution than any telescope sent into space, and is designed to excel at detecting highly redshifted galaxies, in the hope that it will allow His data allow cosmologists to look in more detail at the events of the distant past of the universe.

CEERS-93316 probably won't wear the mantle of the most distant galaxy for long, so chances are good we won't have to wait long for James Webb to show something new.