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.

Webb has been able to observe some of the oldest, faintest light in existence, including this strange galaxy, GS-NDG-9422, as it existed 1 billion years after the Big Bang. For perspective, the universe’s age is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 13.8 billion years.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a 'weird' galaxy with 'exotic' stars that may be the universe's missing link.

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the galaxy named GS-NDG-9422 — a realm that existed about one billion years after the Big Bang, and indeed one that may provide the mi

NDG-9422, in the early Universe. This galaxy's gas outshines its stars, a phenomenon never seen before. This discovery could be a crucial step in understanding the evolution of galaxies from the Universe's first stars to the familiar ones seen today.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a remarkable discovery of an unusual galaxy, GS-NDG-9422, found about one billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy stands out for its unprecedented light signature—its gas is outshining its stars,