The 2nd Farthest Galaxy From Earth Discovered By James Webb Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has released photographs of two galaxies located 33 billion light years from Earth. They are the second and fourth most distant space objects known to mankind.
The discovery was made due to the effect of gravitational lensing. Despite all the perfection of the James Webb Telescope, it has its limitations. Scientists have chosen for a detailed study the area around the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, approximately 3.5 billion light years from Earth. A close cluster of galaxies distorts the space-time around it so much that it, like a lens, magnifies light from objects located far behind it.
The observation made it possible to identify two new, most distant galaxies ever observed by our scientists. These are the objects UNCOVER z-13 and UNCOVER z-12. The most distant of these galaxies existed approximately 330 million years after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.9 billion years ago. It did not become the farthest, but was in second place in terms of distance from us. The UNCOVER z-12 galaxy was discovered a little later and became the fourth most distant galaxy discovered in the early Universe. Let us emphasize that these are no longer candidates. These are confirmed distant galaxies.
