This enhanced view of JWST’s first deep-field image of the cosmos overexposes the brightest galaxies and the cluster’s center in order to better bring out the details present in the fainter, redder, more distant galaxies. This first deep-field view took only half-a-day to acquire with JWST, and contains nearly 100 candidates for ultra-distant galaxies. With 20+ years of data to come, we can only imagine what will ultimately be revealed. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Processing by E. Siegel)
JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
Somewhere out there, in the distant recesses of the expanding Universe, is the farthest galaxy we’re capable of seeing. The farther away an…
