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James Webb Telescope discovers ‘oldest galaxy in the universe’
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest known galaxy in the universe.
It captured the GLASS-z13 galaxy that was formed only about 300 million years after the ‘Big Bang’, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
This breaks the record set by its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, when it spotted galaxy GN-z11, formed 400 million years after the birth of the universe.
The discovery was described in a paper on arXiv, an open access site where reports are published.
“The galaxy, known as GLASS-z13, has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years.”
The $10 billion telescope was launched into space on Christmas Day, 2021, to observe galaxies formed after the Big Bang.
