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13 billion-year-old discovery by James Webb

According to research published by the University of Missouri; The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new galaxy in outer space. It was stated that the discovered galaxy lived 13 billion years ago.

13 BILLION YEARS OLD GALAXY

The work led by Haojing Yan’s team has revealed a galaxy that existed only 200 million years after the big bang events.

Stating that the light viewed with the James Webb telescope dates back 13.6 billion years, the team stated that the discovered planets and stars may have died.
While it was stated that the aforementioned information did not give definite results yet, it was underlined that this discovery made by scientists was not the first early universe and galaxy discovery.

The researchers stated that they used more than one method to find out how fast the galaxies are moving away from the earth. one of these “redshift” In his method, he examined how much of the light emitted by the galaxy stretched towards the red wavelength. This helps measure the distance photons from stars have to travel to reach Earth.

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