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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope spots huge galactic protocluster in the early universe (photo)

The galaxies highlighted in this James Webb Space Telescope image have been confirmed to be at a distance that astronomers refer to as redshift 7.9, which correlates to 650 million years after the Big Bang. 

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged seven galaxies that comprise a massive galactic cluster in the early stages of its evolution. 

The galaxies are seen as they were just 650 million years after the Big Bang, meaning they make up the youngest so-called "protocluster" ever seen by astronomers. 

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