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: Surprisingly, JWST found more of these distant galaxies than anyone expected. This suggests the early universe was much more efficient at creating light and structure than our old models predicted.

For decades, astronomers peered through the Hubble Space Telescope, searching for the "cosmic dawn"—the moment the first stars flickered to life. They found a faint smudge in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a galaxy later confirmed to exist at . To Hubble, it was just a ghostly hint, a pixelated whisper of the past. : Surprisingly, JWST found more of these distant

Everything changed with the arrival of the . Unlike its predecessors, JWST’s NIRCam instrument was designed specifically to see the stretched, "redshifted" light from this era. They found a faint smudge in the Hubble

Here is a story of discovery centered on that distant frontier: The Echo of the First Stars The data revealed: )

: Even in the universe's youth, these galaxies were forming stars at incredible rates.

When JWST finally turned its gold-plated mirrors toward the same patch of sky, the "8.7z" galaxy was no longer a mystery. The data revealed:

), light from the earliest galaxies began a multi-billion-year journey toward Earth.