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3Q: Exploring the universe’s “first light”

After the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies.

This image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in August 2022, features a small part of the sky (only the size of about one tenth of the diameter of the moon) around the brightest quasar that is known to date in the very distant universe. This quasar
This image, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in August 2022, features a small part of the sky (only the size of about one tenth of the diameter of the moon) around the brightest quasar that is known to date in the very distant universe. This quasar's light has travelled more than 13 billion light years through our universe before it fell onto the mirrors of JWST.
Credit: EIGER team
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
By Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office