Snapshots of early galaxies from the James Webb telescope have startled astronomers

The small red dot highlighted inside the white box on this James Webb Space Telescope image is an early galaxy, seen as it looked just 350 million years after the Big Bang.

Galaxies that existed soon after the Big Bang turn out to be surprisingly bright, a discovery that’s both thrilled and puzzled scientists who study how the universe evolved over time.

(Image credit: STScI/NASA)




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Source: NPR Space News