Researchers find second-most distant galaxy using James Webb telescope
It is turning out to be a month of more discoveries for the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, an international team led by Penn State researchers have discovered the second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster, or Abell 2744, using data from JWST. At nearly 33 billion light years away, these incredibly distant galaxies offer insights into how the earliest galaxies might have formed, a press release explains. “Very little is known about the early universe, and the only way to learn about that time and to test our theories of early galaxy formation and growth is with these very distant galaxies,” said first-author Bingjie Wang, postdoctoral scholar in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and a member of the JWST UNCOVER team that conducted the research. The second- and fourth-most distant galaxies ever seen have been confirmed using the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera.
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