Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
      fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation
                    written by a professional astronomer.

                                2024 June 24
   [2]A dark field is shown filled with smudges that are distant galaxies.
      One smudge is expanded in an inset box. This box shows a reddish
       elongated object. Please see the explanation for more detailed
                                information.

                    JADES-GS-z14-0: A New Farthest Object
   Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]CSA, [6]STScI, [7]B. Robertson ([8]UC
     Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile
                                    (CfA)

   Explanation: What if we could see back to the beginning of the
   universe? We could see galaxies forming. But what did [9]galaxies look
   like back then? These questions took a step forward recently with the
   [10]release of the analysis of a [11]James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
   image that included the most distant object yet discovered. Most
   [12]galaxies formed at about 3 billion years after the [13]Big Bang,
   but some formed earlier. [14]Pictured in the inset box is
   [15]JADES-[16]GS-z14-0, a faint smudge of [17]a galaxy that formed only
   300 million years after the [18]universe started. In technical terms,
   this galaxy lies at the record [19]redshift of z=14.32, and so existed
   when the [20]universe was only one fiftieth of the its present age.
   [21]Practically all of the objects in the [22]featured photograph are
   galaxies.

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