Earliest galaxy ever noticed provides glimpse of the nascent universe

Astronomers have showed that a far off galaxy noticed via the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the earliest ever noticed, giving us a window on galaxy formation when the universe was once in its infancy.

Rohan Naidu on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues used JWST to inspect a galaxy known as MoM-z14, which was once first noticed in 2023.

Since it introduced in 2021, JWST has detected galaxies…