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Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed

Javier Carbajal

created: June 3, 2025, 9 a.m. | updated: June 18, 2025, 9:13 p.m.

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has broken the record for the oldest, most distant galaxy detected to date by humans. In a preprint study, still awaiting peer review and publication in a journal, astronomers describe this primitive galaxy, giving it the name MoM z14. No one expected the James Webb Space Telescope to have the potential to observe things so close in age to the Big Bang just three and a half years after launch. The James Webb Space Telescope, with its ability to peer deep into distant space, allows us to study some aspects of the universe in its early stages. Can the James Webb cross that threshold and find the first generation of galaxies?

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