The team of astronomers were initially skeptical of their findings. They expected to find baby galaxies, but not ones that were already mature. They were incredulous when they saw the data. And knew that their findings needed to be confirmed before they could be declared as fact.
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The James Webb Space Telescope was instrumental in shedding light on these massive galaxies. It has the ability to penetrate through clouds of gas and dust using infrared imaging.
The telescope’s infrared vision was also used to penetrate Titan’s hazy atmosphere, revealing what is thought to be a methane sea, sand dunes, and clouds.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, said that the discovery was a testament to the technology that was used to make it happen. He said that so much had to go right that expectations were tempered just in case something went wrong.
The team of astronomers is still waiting for official confirmation through sensitive spectroscopy. They are careful to call these “candidate massive galaxies” for now. But the potential of these findings is huge. It could change the way we think about how galaxies formed in the early universe.
