11/05/2026
To MoM-z14 & back! š
Let a caregiver in your life know your appreciation for them reaches the farthest galaxy ever detected!
The galaxy designated MoM-z14 was detected by Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument.
Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us.
Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universeās story.
Read more about MoM-z14: https://go.nasa.gov/3PxMI0v
