With its gas shining brighter than its stars, a strange galaxy found one billion years after the Big Bang may represent a previously unknown phase of galactic evolution. Amid a crowded field of galaxies captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope,

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas outshining its stars.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a rare galaxy at the dawn of time that may be a "missing link" between the oldest generation of stars and the ones we see near Earth.