Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...
The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
Webb, which was launched by NASA in 2022 and became operational in 2023, has begun to provide a deeper understanding of the early universe. It has spotted only four galaxies dating to slightly earlier ...
Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Although the first stars and galaxies gave off ...