James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope finds early galaxies

James Webb Telescope finds early galaxies

By: My space stories

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Recently James Webb Telescope finds oldest and farthest galaxies of our Universe.

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Telescope discovers two distant galaxies, they are located several light years from our Earth.

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Those two galaxies situated behind the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744.

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These oldest galaxies have been formed approximately 450 million and 350 million years after the Big Bang.

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Gathered data shows that earlier universe were brighter than initially thought. So it's easy for Webb to find more data.

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Astronomers thinks that reason behind this birghtness is population III stars.

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Population III stars, are the extremely hot, bright stars that made shortly after the Big Bang.

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These type of stars made up of only hydrogen and helium, and would have burned much brighter them than normal stars.

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In local universe population III stars don't exist. This is new chapter of astronomy and big discovery till date.

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These research papers are published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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