The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues.
Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any element in the universe other than hydrogen.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have obtained the spectrum of JADES-GS-z14-0, a record-breaking galaxy observed only 290 million years after the Big Bang.
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Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to find the oldest-known galaxy ever found. It formed just 290 million years after the universe was created.