Webb Telescope Spots the Second-Most-Distant Galaxy Yet

A recent deep field image from the Webb Space Telescope, showcasing a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster, or Abell 2744, features two galaxies. These galaxies are remarkable for their distance from Earth, being the second and fourth most distant galaxies ever observed, according to a team of researchers that recently scrutinized the image.

Webb first observed Abell 2744 in June 2022, including some 60,000 other light sources in a deep field of the cluster. Now, spectroscopic data from the galaxies revealed their superlative distance:…