A scientist who analyzed the data said that the telescope may have found a galaxy that was 13 billion years old.
About 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, the galaxy is known as GLASS-z13.
He said that they were looking at the most distant starlight.
It takes a long time for the light to reach us from the more distant objects.
🚨 JWST has potentially smashed records, spotting a galaxy which existed when the universe was a mere 300 million years old! The light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to hit us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe! pic.twitter.com/5AcOBwHuO1
— Dr. James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) July 20, 2022
GLASS-z13 could have formed any time within the first 300 million years of the Universe.
The discovery was not revealed in the first image set published by NASA.
The visible spectrum shows a blob of red with white in its center as part of a larger image of the distant universe.
25Astronomers from across the world have submitted their findings to a journal.
The research has yet to be peer-reviewed but it has already set the global astronomy community abuzz because it is posted on a preprint server.
NASA's chief scientist Thomas Zurbuchen said that astronomy records are crumbling.
I cheer when science results in clear peer review. He said that this looks very promising.
The team led by Marco Castellano that worked on the same data has come up with similar conclusions.
One of the great promises of the project is that it will be able to find the earliest galaxies that formed after the Bigbang.
By the time their light reaches us, it has been stretched by the expansion of the Universe and shifted to the IR region of the light spectrum.
A group of people combed through the data of the distant Universe looking for a telltale sign of a distant galaxy.
The neutral hydrogen of the Universe that lies between the object and the observer absorbs all packets of energy below a specific threshold of theIR.
They were able to determine the location of the most distant galaxies by using the data collected through different filters.
The two systems that had the most compelling signature were searched for and found.
GLASS-z13 is one of the two that is ancient.
There's still a lot of work to be done.
To measure its precise distance, the team wants to ask the managers for telescope time to carry out an analysis of light that reveals details.
The guess for the distance is based on what we don't see and it would be great to have an answer for that.
The team has found surprising properties.
The mass of a billion Suns is "potentially very surprising, and that is something we don't really understand, given how soon after the Big bang it formed", according to the president.
Astronomers are confident that the new era of discovery will be ushered in by the most powerful space telescope ever built.
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