JADES GS z14 0: A New Farthest Object

JADES-GS-z14-0: A New Farthest Object

Image Credit:
NASA,
ESA,
CSA,
STScI,
B. Robertson
(UC Santa Cruz),
B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile (CfA)

Explanation:
What if we could see back to the beginning of the universe?

We could see galaxies forming.

But what did
galaxies look like back then?

These questions took a step forward recently with the
release of the analysis of a
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
image that included the most distant object yet discovered.

Most galaxies formed at about 3 billion years after the
Big Bang,
but some formed earlier.

Pictured in the inset box is
JADES–GS-z14-0,
a faint smudge of
a galaxy that formed
only 300 million years after the
universe started.

In technical terms, this galaxy lies at the record
redshift of z=14.32,
and so existed when the universe was only
one fiftieth of the its present age.

Practically all of the objects in the
featured photograph are galaxies.