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Skyler Ware

'Previously unimaginable': James Webb telescope breaks its own record again, discovering farthest known galaxy in the universe

The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 which exists 33.8 billion light-years from Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted the most distant galaxy observed to date — breaking its own record yet again.

The galaxy, dubbed MoM-z14, is "the most distant spectroscopically confirmed source to date, extending the observational frontier to a mere 280 million years after the Big Bang," researchers wrote in a new study that appeared May 23 on the preprint server arXiv.

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