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James Webb Space Telescope Program

James Webb Space Telescope Program

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James Webb telescope rewrites the cosmic dawn

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Operational, primary science mission ongoing

In January 2026, NASA confirmed MoM-z14 as the most distant galaxy ever observed, formed 280 million years after the Big Bang. JWST has kept adding to the list: a non-rotating dead galaxy, a dust-rich red galaxy at 400 million years old, and a 164,000-galaxy map of the cosmic webβ€”all published in the months since.

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