24 Feb 2023

James Webb Telescope finds new galaxies

From Afternoons, 1:35 pm on 24 February 2023

Six potential galaxies that shouldn't exist have been found in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

It's the work of an international team of astrophysicists.

Erica Nelson, professor of astrophysics at university of Colorado in Boulder. She talks to Jesse about the amazing discovery.

An image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 created by combining many different JWST exposures. In this tiny part of the sky (a fraction of a full Moon) almost every one of the thousands of objects shown is a distant galaxy.

An image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 created by combining many different JWST exposures. In this tiny part of the sky (a fraction of a full Moon) almost every one of the thousands of objects shown is a distant galaxy. Photo: Lukas Furtak (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) from images from the GLASS/UNCOVER teams