Did the Webb Space Telescope Find the Oldest Galaxy Ever Seen? Complicated
If you are already following astronomy community on Twitter or maybe, Captain America himself You may have come across the story about the latest discovery of the James Webb Space Telescope: “The oldest galaxy we have ever seen.” This is exactly as promised from the James Webb Space Telescope. Just a week ago, the collective jaws of the world hit the floor when First amazing picture revealed . Now, the telescope started off right myriad science programs but researchers already have access to much of the data collected during the commissioning phase of JWST and released earlier to researchers around the world. That’s how we ended up discovering the “oldest galaxy” so quickly. Scientists examine specific data sets to search for distant galaxies and find a candidate they have dubbed the GL-z13, a callback to the current confirmed record holder, the GNz11. There’s still a lot of work to be done to make sure the GL-z13 is actually the new record holder — some of which will take