Since starting operations last month, the James Webb space telescope has demonstrated its capabilities by taking pictures of galaxies that appear brighter and at higher resolution. Now it has set a new record by taking images of the most distant galaxies ever recorded in history.
The galaxy CEERS-93316 is estimated to be located 35 billion light-years from Earth. This successfully captured image shows what CEERS-93316 looked like when it was 235 million years after the Big Bang explosion. The existence of CEERS-93316 is only noticed now because the James Webb infrared camera instrument is sensitive enough to see it.
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