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00:03The James Webb Space Telescope has taken some pretty far-out pictures of space so far,
00:08but this might be the farthest out we've ever seen.
00:11This is what experts say is one of the first galaxies to have ever formed after the Big Bang.
00:15It's called Glass Z-12, and it was formed just 350 million years after the universe starting event,
00:21a blip in time when compared to the age of other cosmic bodies.
00:24But they didn't just find one, they also spotted another slightly younger
00:28that was formed only around 100 million years later as well.
00:31Researcher Tommaso True, one of the scientists working on examining the data from the telescope,
00:36had this to say about the find.
00:37As soon as we started taking data,
00:39we discovered that there were many more distant galaxies than we were expecting.
00:42Somehow the universe managed to form galaxies faster and earlier than we thought.
00:46Adding that NASA's new space telescope is bringing us closer to understanding how it all began,
00:51and they began a little differently it seems.
00:53First off, they're really small,
00:55and researchers are now beginning to believe that galaxies like these
00:57may have formed even earlier, possibly just 100 million years after the Big Bang.
01:02But they're also very bright, meaning they might have many tiny stars,
01:05or few extremely large ones, made of simpler elements from a fledgling universe.
01:10Well done, for sure.
01:15Let's go.

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