Webb telescope travels back in time, finds galaxies that formed 9 billion years before birth of Earth - Qoneqt
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    Sonal Shridhar Shinde in News

    05-Apr-2023 04:53 PM


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    Webb telescope travels back in time, finds galaxies that formed 9 billion years before birth of Earth

    Light from these ancient galaxies began traveling about 13.4 billion years ago that has now reached the James Webb Space Telescope.
    These galaxies date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang when our universe came to life.
    It is a tremendously exciting achievement for the mission,” astronomer and co-author Emma Curtis-Lake from the University of Hertfordshire, said in a statement.
    The telescope observed the piece of sky for just 10 days and produced images that are 15 times larger than the deepest infrared images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, and yet even deeper and sharper at these wavelengths.
    Source: India Today