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It's official: Webb's new distance record

ASTRONOMERS USING the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed the most distant galaxies ever observed. Some formed when the universe was just 2% of its current age.

The results, based on detailed spectroscopic measurements, provide concrete distances to galaxies first revealed in Webb images. “It was crucial

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