Infant universe teemed with full-fledged galaxies crackling with bursts of star formation

More than 45,000 galaxies are visible in this infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was taken for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program
Monday, June 5, 2023

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered an unexpected bounty of full-fledged galaxies at a time when the universe was just getting started. Researchers learned that these galaxies went through bursts of star formation.

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