Webb Spots MoM-z14, the Galaxy Born 280 Million Years After the Big Bang
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed MoM-z14 as the most distant galaxy observed to date, with a redshift of 14.44 implying its light has traveled about 13.5 billion years—roughly 280 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy is exceptionally compact yet luminous, about 50 times smaller than the Milky Way, signaling intense early star formation and raising questions about nitrogen production in the infant universe. It surpasses the previous record holder and demonstrates Webb’s power to illuminate the cosmos’s infancy and refine models of early galaxy growth.
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