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Earliest and most distant known galaxy spotted by James Webb telescope

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The galaxy was spotted as astronomers and scientists studied what's known as "Cosmic Dawn."

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  1. Digital Trends

    James Webb discovers the most distant galaxy ever observed (opens Digital Trends)

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    Researchers using James Webb have discovered the most distant known galaxy to date. It existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

  2. Gizmodo

    Webb Spots Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen—and It's Weirdly Bright (opens Gizmodo)

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    The freshly spotted galaxy offers a rare glimpse of our universe when it was young, less than 300 million years after the Big Bang.

  3. Engadget

    NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy ever observed (opens Engadget)

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    NASA’S James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant and oldest known galaxy. The “bright, massive and large” star system reportedly formed just 290 million years after the big bang.

  4. Phys

    Astronomers help find most distant galaxy using James Webb Space Telescope (opens Phys)

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    An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big Bang. These results, using NASA

  5. CBS News

    Earliest and most distant known galaxy spotted by James Webb telescope (opens CBS News)

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    The galaxy was spotted as astronomers and scientists studied what's known as "Cosmic Dawn."

  6. Digital Journal

    Webb telescope finds most distant galaxy ever observed, again (opens Digital Journal)

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    The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system

  7. Universe Today

    Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far) (opens Universe Today)

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    There are some things that never cease to amaze me and the discovery of distant objects is one of them. The James Webb Space Telescope has just found the most distant galaxy ever observed! It has the catchy title JADES-GS-z14-0 and it has a redshift of 14.32.

  8. The Guardian

    James Webb space telescope photographs most distant known galaxy (opens The Guardian)

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    Unexpected brightness of JADES-GS-z14-0 means telescope could capture images of galaxies even further away

  9. Fox News

    Powerful Webb Telescope captures most distant known galaxy, scientists say (opens Fox News)

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    Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed the most distant known galaxy, which they claim is very luminous and nearly 300 million years old.

  10. Quartz

    The most distant galaxy ever recorded is surprisingly bright (opens Quartz)

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    The Webb Space Telescope observed the galaxy, which is from less than 300 million years after the Big Bang.

  11. Forbes

    ‘Profound’ Moment As Webb Sees Most Distant Galaxy Close To ‘Big Bang’ (opens Forbes)

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    Landmark discovery as a “surprisingly bright” galaxy called JADES-GS-z14-0 confirmed to be just 290 million light-years from the “Big Bang”—the farthest galaxy ever seen.

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