James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners

James Webb telescope reveals the clearest map ever of the Universe’s cosmic web

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing more than 164,000 galaxies through the massive COSMOS-Web survey, researchers were able to trace this vast network back to when the universe was just a billion years old.

James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners

Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The resulting map reveals how galaxies have evolved since the universe's infancy around 13 billion years ago and how they fall together in a vast structure called the cosmic web. The cosmic web is the largest known structure in existence, home to countless galaxy clusters and c…