NASA's Webb Telescope Spots Some of the Oldest Galaxies Ever Seen

"Webb's new findings suggest that the galaxies would have had to begin coming together about 100 million years after the big bang — meaning that the first stars might have started forming in such galaxies around that time, much earlier than expected." The latest pictures were captured as part of a study led by the University of California at Los Angeles' Tommaso Treu. "Everything we see is new. Webb is showing us that there's a very rich universe beyond what we imagined," Treu said in a press release. "Once again the universe has surprised us. These early galaxies are very unusual in many ways."