Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away, meaning it formed in the early ...

Oxygen detected in the most distant galaxy ever discovered offers evidence that stars in the early universe matured faster ...

Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy, which is known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is 13.4 billion light years away ...

It may not look like much, but that fuzzy red orb may be light from the most distant galaxy ever seen, perhaps as far as 13.2 billion light years away. That means that the light now reaching us, shone ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found, suggesting that early galaxies formed more rapidly than previously thought. The record-breaking discovery, reported by two teams ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

An international team has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after the Big Bang and already shows a remarkably ...

In a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve, astronomers have identified the most distant spiral galaxy candidate ever observed—a vast, mature system that ...

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