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- The James Webb Space Telescope has enabled astronomers to confirm that a galaxy initially spotted last summer ranks among the earliest ever observed.
- The first detection of Maisie’s galaxy has shown that it dates back to 390 million years after the Big Bang.
- For reference, the universe as a whole is about 13.77 billion years old.
- The team is currently evaluating about 10 other galaxies that might be from an era even earlier than Maisie’s.
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