One of the bright, early galaxies that was hidden from view is thought to have formed 350 million years after the Bigbang.
If the results are confirmed, this newly discovered group of stars would beat the most distant galaxy that formed 400 million years after the universe began.
The new telescope, launched last December as a successor to Hubble, indicates stars may have formed sooner than previously thought.
The latest discoveries were detailed in the Astrophysical Journal Letters by an international team. The first thought was to have formed 350 million years after the Big bang, and the second thought was to have formed 450 million years later.
Before claiming a new distance record, more observations need to be made in the IR.
Scientists at a NASA news conference stressed that the candidates for the creation of the universe are still being verified. They noted that some of those could be similar to previous ones.
Illingworth is a co-author of the article. We're still trying to sort out as a community which ones of those announcements are likely to be real.
The evidence presented so far is as solid as it gets, according to Tommaso Treu, a chief scientist for the early release science program.
According to Raidu and his team, if the findings are verified and more early galaxies are out there, they will prove highly successful in pushing the Cosmic Frontier all the way to the Big Bang.
One of the most interesting questions is when and how the first galaxies formed.
The galaxies were hiding under the limits of what Hubble could do.
She said that they were waiting for them. It's a happy surprise that there are so many of these.
One million miles from Earth, the world's largest and most powerful telescope is in a solar circle. NASA released a series of dazzling snapshots of the universe after full science operations began.
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