JWST finds most distant galaxy? MAYBE, but not quite… #shorts

More in next week’s Night Sky News! Here’s the research paper announcing this discovery of a possible most distant galaxy ever found in James Webb Space Telescope images: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09434.pdf

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