In yet another remarkable discovery, the all-powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured the most distant galaxy from deep space, according to a statement issued by the European Space Agency (ESA) Thursday.
The newly-found galaxy was discovered after two years of observation exploring Cosmic Dawn. This time is a few million years after the Big Bang when the first galaxies came into being, according to the release.
The galaxy is found 290 million years after the great cosmic burst.
The statement added: "These galaxies provide vital insight into the ways in which the gas, stars, and black holes were changing when the universe was very young."
Revealing about the discovery, the press release read: "In October 2023 and January 2024, an international team of astronomers used Webb to observe galaxies as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) programme."
"Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph), scientists obtained a spectrum of a record-breaking galaxy observed only two hundred and ninety million years after the big bang. This corresponds to a redshift of about 14, which is a measure of how much a galaxy’s light is stretched by the expansion of the Universe."
The discovery comes days after the James Webb Telescope captured moments from the Orion Nebula — located at a distance of 1,500 light years away from Earth.
The new James Webb images show the cloud of gas and dust called Messier 42 (M42) — material from which stars form — in bright colours.
