: Even in the universe's youth, these galaxies were forming stars at incredible rates.
Everything changed with the arrival of the . Unlike its predecessors, JWST’s NIRCam instrument was designed specifically to see the stretched, "redshifted" light from this era. : Even in the universe's youth, these galaxies
When JWST finally turned its gold-plated mirrors toward the same patch of sky, the "8.7z" galaxy was no longer a mystery. The data revealed: When JWST finally turned its gold-plated mirrors toward
Today, serves as a vital milepost. It is the boundary where the "Dark Ages" ended and the "Age of Reionization" began, turning the universe transparent and paving the way for the stars we see tonight. For decades, astronomers peered through the Hubble Space
For decades, astronomers peered through the Hubble Space Telescope, searching for the "cosmic dawn"—the moment the first stars flickered to life. They found a faint smudge in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a galaxy later confirmed to exist at . To Hubble, it was just a ghostly hint, a pixelated whisper of the past.