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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered

Using JWST, researchers from CANUCS team have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered.

The Milky Way, our galaxy, has about 150 globular clusters. Their history is not yet well understood by astronomers, and measuring their age can be extremely difficult. 

Dubbed the Sparkler galaxy, it got its name thanks to the compact objects appearing as small yellow-red dots surrounding it, referred to by Canadian researchers as sparkles.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has promised to take us back to a time when our universe was in its infancy. And it’s keeping its word. In a new paper published Thursday, a team of Canadian astronomers has found evidence of some of the oldest known stars.

Dr. Chris Willott's elation at seeing the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope — which showed a cluster of hundreds of galaxies in deep space — was a culmination of 16 years working on the project.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a dusty, distant object that could help astronomers unravel the mystery of how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed.

Locals living next to a South London beauty spot have hit out at plans to build a seven-storey tower block in front of their homes.

During its decade or more in orbit, Webb will be used by teams of astronomers to study a wide variety of celestial phenomena, from exoplanets to black holes.

Some of the James Webb Space Telescopes first science will probe the role quasars play in early galaxy evolution.