'You could say that these are the first 'direct' images of galaxy formation that we've ever seen,' researcher Kasper Heintz said.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted some of the universe's youngest galaxies forming.These three galaxies are thought to have been taking shape when the universe was only between 400 and 600 million years old, according to a new paper in the journal Science.The universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old, meaning that these young galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang on a cosmic time scale.
This is the process that we see the beginning of in our observations,' study co-author Darach Watson, an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, said in another statement.The oldest known galaxies in the universe are thought to have formed between 300 and 400 million years after the Big Bang, which is how old astronomers think these three galaxies are.'You could say that these are the first 'direct' images of galaxy formation that we've ever seen.
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