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Upvoting If the Universe is supposed to be 13.7 Billion years old, why then
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has the James Webb telescope discovered a Galaxy that is 32
Russo- billion light years away? That means that the light would have
Ukrainian… traveled for much longer than the age of the universe!

Ukraine Q: If the Universe is supposed to be 13.7 Billion years old, why

then has the James Webb telescope discovered a Galaxy that is 32
Hollywood billion light years away?

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A: Patience, young pup! James Webb Space Telescope is not online yet. July
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You seem to be referring to GN-z11, or some other ultra-deep field
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discovery. GN-z11 was discovered using a collection of observatiories:
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Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray
History Observatory, XMM-Newton, and Herschel Space Observatory. In that data,
the galaxy GN-z11 was found.

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GN-z11 is the red blob. That’s as good image as we can get.

Q: That means that the light would have traveled for much longer
than the age of the universe!

A: You are missing one crucial detail: space expands.

It works a bit like this: imagine holding a rubberband between your hands.
At a certain point, someone drops an ant on it. The ant walks at 1
cm/second – no faster, no slower. But while it is walking, you are stretching
the rubberband, so when the ant finally bites your thumb 13.4 seconds
later, the point where the ant was placed is now 32 cm away from your
thumb.

The same happens to light: the light from that galaxy took 13.4 billion
years to reach us, since then, space has expanded, and the galaxy (or
whatever remains of it) is now 32 billion light-years away. And since the
space that light travels through expands and light still must move at the
speed of light, it has to lose energy in other ways than going slower. So it
becomes redshifted instead: the wavelength becomes longer, and the light
is thus redder.

And that is where James Webb Space Telescope comes in: it is specialised in
taking very detailed images in the red and infrared part of the spectrum.
That means that when online, it can take very detailed images of galaxies
even further away than GN-z11, and thus shed some light (pun intended)
on the Dark Ages of the universe and the earliest stars.

So perhaps James Webb can take another look at GN-z11, and with the Messages
magic of shifting the colours in post-processing to compensate for the
redshift, the image it takes may look a bit like this:

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But alas, that is just an artist’s conception of GN-z11, and not the real
thing.

So again, patience, young pup!

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