{"id":176491,"date":"2023-11-22T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/second-most-distant-galaxy-discovered-using-james-webb-space-telescope"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:23:30","slug":"second-most-distant-galaxy-discovered-using-james-webb-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/second-most-distant-galaxy-discovered-using-james-webb-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Second-most Distant Galaxy discovered using James Webb Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/second-most-distant-galaxy-discovered-using-james-webb-space-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second-and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed have been discovered in a region of space known as Pandora\u2019s Cluster, or Abell 2,744, using data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Following up on a deep field image of the area, an international team led by Penn State researchers confirmed the distance of these ancient galaxies and inferred their properties using new spectroscopic data \u2014 information about light emitted across the electromagnetic spectrum \u2014 from JWST. At nearly 33 billion light years away, these incredibly distant galaxies offer insights into how the earliest galaxies might have formed.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other galaxies confirmed at this distance that appear in images as red dots, the new galaxies are larger and appear like a peanut and a fluffy ball, according to the researchers. A paper describing the galaxies appears today (Nov 13) in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery little is known about the early universe, and the only way to learn about that time and to test our theories of early galaxy formation and growth is with these very distant galaxies,\u201d said first-author Bingjie Wang, postdoctoral scholar in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and a member of the JWST UNCOVER (Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization) team that conducted the research. \u201cPrior to our analysis, we knew of only three galaxies confirmed at around this extreme distance. Studying these new galaxies and their properties has revealed the diversity of galaxies in the early universe and how much there is to be learned from them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-and fourth-most distant galaxies ever observed have been discovered in a region of space known as Pandora\u2019s Cluster, or Abell 2,744, using data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Following up on a deep field image of the area, an international team led by Penn State researchers confirmed the distance of these ancient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}