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    The most distant galaxy ever observed.


    MoM-z14 is the most distant galaxy ever observed, located 13.8 billion light-years away. Discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, it dates back to just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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    1. Bonzo_Gariepi on

      the wicked thing is that it’s the fartest because on a X axis it’s on the coplete opposite side of the big bang , quite crazy stuff when you think about it.

    2. yARIC009 on

      How do they even know that’s a galaxy and not just some other completely random other thing?

    3. KFPindustries on

      Your MoM is so fat I can see her from the farthest distance in the universe.

    4. mmomtchev on

      MoM is for Mirage or Miracle. I remind you that there were a number of very high redshift “discoveries” using JWST that were later invalidated. However they seem to be quite confident about this one.

      What Is surprising is that the galaxy has metallicity, which means that these stars are second generation stars – and this is only 280M after the Big Bang.

      JWST has still never found the hypothetical population III stars – first-generation stars with no metallicity at all.

    5. aasania on

      So you’re saying this galaxy existed a long time ago, and it’s far, far away?

    7. backflipsben on

      “I had a bad relationship with my mother growing up, she was always so distant.”

      “How distant?”

    8. Andromeda321 on

      Astronomer here! I’m the astronomy editor for the Guinness Book of World Records, and let’s just say “most distant galaxy” has kept me busy lately. 🙂

      This galaxy, [MoM-z14](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoM-z14), is 13.57 billion light years from us- that is, that’s how long light had to travel before it hit the JWST mirror. However, fun fact, the *distance* to the galaxy is much bigger- 33.8 billion light years! This is because the universe has expanded that much since the light was first emitted!

      Science is cool! 🙂

    9. drums_addict on

      Think we’ll ever figure out FTL travel to be able to explore these places?