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Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University

Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains

James Webb has peered into the distant Universe NASA

We’ve now seen the first data from the James Webb Space Telescope. It has observed the atmospheres of distant planets, groups of nearby galaxies, galaxy light bent by unseen dark matter, and clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries.

We have also seen headlines claiming Webb has found “the oldest galaxies we have ever seen”, but what does that mean?

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