The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of over 45,000 sparkling galaxies formed just a couple of million years after the Big Bang.
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Epoch of Reionization
The galaxies seen in the Webb image belong to a period in the universe's history called the 'Epoch of Reionization' when the first galaxies and stars began to take shape.
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Galaxies bursting with stars
The Webb image also reveals that the galaxies were filled with a "multitude of young, hot stars."
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JADES program
The study is a part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. One of the objectives of this program is to study distant galaxies.
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Ancient distant galaxies
So far, JADES has discovered hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than 600 million years old.