James Webb Telescope Reveals a Galactic Star Factory Containing 45,000 Galaxies in a Single Image!

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary image revealing a star factory filled with galaxies.

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This image is part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey program and focuses on a region of the sky known as GOODS-South, containing over 45,000 galaxies.

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The patch of sky captured by JWST has previously been observed by the Hubble telescope as well.

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The JADES program, using JWST, aims to understand how the first stars and galaxies formed.

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The team studied galaxies that existed 500 to 850 million years after the Big Bang when the universe was still opaque to energetic light due to a gaseous fog.

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The image reveals 45,000 galaxies, which could be counted with significant time on hand.

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JWST's observations in GOODS led to the discovery of approximately 700 new galaxies, some of which are the youngest ever observed.

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The study of these young galaxies and their light signatures contributes to understanding the Epoch of Reionization, a critical period in the early universe's history.

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