James Webb Caught Light From a Place Voyager Will Never Reach

The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn't have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the uni

The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021, astronomers expected it would peer further back in time than any instrument in human history. They hoped to see the first faint galaxies — the small, dim, chemically simple ones that should have existed in the universe’s earliest moments. What they got instead was something nobody expected. Not faint galaxies. Bright ones. Big ones. Galaxies that l…

James Webb Caught Light From a Place Voyager Will Never Reach

James Webb Caught Light From a Place Voyager Will Never ReachA telescope just captured light from a galaxy that formed when the universe was two percent of its current age. Meanwhile, Voyager 1, the fastest thing humanity has ever launched, has been flying for nearly fifty years and still hasn't crossed the distance light coversJames Webb Caught Light From a Place Voyager Will Never ReachA telescope just captured light from a galaxy that formed …