"NO DARK AGES" James Webb Telescope Just Spotted 2 of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen. The discovery was made possible by a massive gravitational lens in the form of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 aka Pandora's Cluster, located about 3.5 billion light-years away from us.
The cluster warped space-time, enough to magnify the light of more faraway galaxies in the background. Using this, Webb Telescope scientists have discovered two of the highest redshift galaxies ever seen.
One designated UNCOVER-z13, which has a redshift of 13.079, confirming we see it as it existed just 330 million years after the Big Bang.
The other galaxy recently discovered, UNCOVER-z12, has a redshift of 12.393, placing it at just 350 million years after the Big Bang.
But what sets these two galaxies apart from the rest is their appearance.
While other galaxies seen at similarly high redshifts seem to be point-like, indicating they are very small, just a few hundreds of light years across, the UNCOVER galaxies, strangely, have structure.
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