James Webb Space Telescope Fingerprints Earliest Galaxies | NASA |#shorts

Our previous "most distant galaxy" was detected by Webb's predecessor telescope, the veteran Hubble space observatory. It spied the equally quirkily named GN-z11. This galaxy was seen to be a little closer to us, at a time when the Universe was only 400 million years old.

But the big deal here is that the baton has truly now been passed from Hubble to James Webb, from one great telescope to the next great telescope, as scientists seek to trace the earliest epoch of star formation.

Indeed, the US space agency Nasa's recently launched Webb observatory has been given the primary objective of finding the very first stars to light up the cosmos.

JADES-GS-z13-0 isn't quite from that time, but we're getting very close to it.

This is where a hand goes up to ask: But weren't there reports over the Summer of Webb observations that are even more distant than JADES-GS-z13-0?