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Paul Sutter

James Webb Space Telescope spots a gassy baby galaxy throwing a tantrum in the early universe

A swirl of green light around a series of white dots shows a young galaxy, with purple around the green lit bubble.

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a bright, young galaxy in the early universe. Although it's not the earliest galaxy ever found, it is among the first generation of large galaxies to appear after the Big Bang. In particular, this galaxy arose when the universe was less than 500 million years old.

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