(DailyWire) — The remarkable James Webb Telescope has now offered mankind a possible glimpse of the farthest starlight from Earth anyone has ever seen, and a galaxy that was formed closer to the original Big Bang than any galaxy seen before.
Two galaxies billions of light-years farther behind the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744 were discovered by the Webb. One is estimated as having come into existence 450 million years after the Big Bang — which has been estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago — while the second, titled GLASS-z12, emerged only 350 million years after the explosion. Both galaxies are estimated to be tiny compared to the Milky Way galaxy of which Earth is a part.
“These observations just make your head explode. This is a whole new chapter in astronomy. It’s like an archaeological dig, and suddenly you find a lost city or something you didn’t know about. It’s just staggering,” said Paola Santini, one the authors of a research paper led by Marco Castellano of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, Italy.
Another research paper outlining the discovery was led by Rohan Naidu of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both papers were published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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