At the Edge of Time, JWST makes a stunning discovery

The James Webb Space Telescope has made another incredible discovery, this time finding the faintest galaxy ever seen in the early universe. Named JD1, this galaxy is so far away that its light has taken 13.3 billion years to reach us. That means we're seeing it as it was when the universe was only a few hundred million years old, just a fraction of its current age. JD1 is a small, ultra-faint galaxy. It is so faint that it would have been invisible to previous telescopes. It has a mass of only about 10,000 times that of the Sun, and it is forming stars at a rate of about one solar mass per year. JD1 is likely one of the first galaxies to form in the universe, and it is helping us to understand how galaxies evolved over time.
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[@Indiacountryball69]

This shows us that how much secrets are still hidden from us in this vast Universe

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

It’s not really hidden.

[@Prospero812]

@@mikewhocheeseharry5292 yes you’re right insane it’s not a secret it’s just not known to us yet. We only know a fraction a small, very small fraction.

[@YukonJack]

​@@mikewhocheeseharry5292how is it not hidden? Even just 50 years ago cosmology was seen entirely differently. The fact that even the big bang is coming under intense doubt shows it's absolutely hidden.

[@Emmanuel_Amoah]

We just haven’t began to scratch the surface of its surface of its surface. A JWST hyper advanced replacement in some years to come, will probably leave us dumbfounded with all sorts of phenomena occurring in our cosmic backyards we’ve probably been blinded to all this while.

[@Max_Stan_01]

Bro imagine we cannot even explore the observable universe then think about the unobservable universe

[@aegis6485]

We are but a drop of water in an infinitesimal ocean.

[@Tornado2409]

more like a single molecule

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

It’s not infinite

[@kingfoorthwal]

@@mikewhocheeseharry5292it could be. But you're pretty stupid for saying for sure it isn't

[@LaurentCassaro]

Infinitesimal means extremely SMALL. Just saying 😂

[@just_delta-2589]

​@LaurentCassaro well an ocean is pretty infinitesimal compared to an entire universe so if we're only a drop of water in that ocean then we are beyond infinitesimally small compared to the scale of the universe so they're not wrong😂

[@libbydaddy8610]

An incredible amount of conjecture presented as fact. But what a wonderful tool this Webb telescope is becoming!

[@MGM7349]

If theres any life in that galaxy, they will be billions of years ahead of us. Sobering thought

[@upperlaurel]

The further we look, the more there will be. Amazing

[@demetriusbadua4037]

A Long time ago... In a Galaxy far, far away... 🌌🌠

[@ika-i]

That's exactly what I heard in my mind when he said the name JD1 because it looks like it says Jedi. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!! 😂

[@demetriusbadua4037]

@@ika-i Hawaiians are da real Jedi braddah 🤙🏾🌌🌠🗿💚🙏🏾mhmm strong the force Iz...

[@shlaugen]

Absolutely incredible! Thank you JWST

[@Luckylady77777]

So we can see to the beginning of time and other dimensions but we can’t find a huge planet in our own solar system, makes sense

[@Furukan455]

The fact that we can tell if it's something or not in space is amazing for me

[@RecoveryJimmy89]

This James Webb Telescope is amazing

[@gavinremillard535]

i love how there’s always more to learn about our world.

[@axemuth1757]

Think about it, looking at a far freaking distance means youre looking at potentially he birth of the universe itself, crazy and fascinating as hell.

[@blumind_web2264]

We can’t see that far back because at a certain point we run into a wall of super dense super hot gas and plasma called the CMBR it’s so thick and dense that light can’t penetrate it so any event older than that point is forever hidden

[@mr.whythescienceguy3429]

The more we know, the more we know what we don't know.

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

I didn't even know galaxies could be that small.

[@samwilson6316]

We're so cute putting an age on the universe. We don't know absolutely anything yet, but we are evolving and slowly getting there.

[@RonWinters-lh7eg]

So freaking cool.

[@TheQuadLaunchers]

“It has only 10,000 masses of the sun.” How the frick you gonna tell us that from an image of a blurry red dot?

[@himynameis3664]

Probably judging by size and distance. I'm no astrophysicist, but im sure they have a lot of complex maths in there thats used to work out these things.

[@itmaslanka]

The Catholic Church used to boil you in tar if you said the earth wasn’t the center of the universe!

[@RonWinters-lh7eg]

Mmm ... tar.

[@spelcheak]

No they didn’t. They did have a problem with trying to make “the Earth is tho” doctrine, because it’s not and it isn’t a matter of doctrine regardless. Actually, correction; we are at the center of the *observable* universe and expansion makes it a mute point by other measures. My point is going under house arrest for political statements is NOT being boiled in tar for heresy or whatever

[@itmaslanka]

@@spelcheak They did kill over 80 million people for not believing in whatever they were pushing ! And in those days 80 million was a bigger chunk of the population! PS Why don’t you look up the Papal Auditorium and explain why it looks like a f’in SNAKE ! We have all been deceived as the CC is now run by pagan Satanist !

[@freefall9832]

It is the center of the observable universe

[@gwenbatoon5262]

Catholic church converts facts to suit then,while the universe is creating we are destroying ours

[@lancerevell5979]

After that length of time, it's likely that galaxy no longer exists.

[@rickbrenner6079]

You’re right. All of it’s stars have probably all turned into white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.

[@Teeb2023]

@@kuriokudesu You have no idea whether it's true or not.

[@FernandoRodriguez-pj5uh]

Why not? You live in a galaxy that is 13.6 billion years old. We are still here.

[@FernandoRodriguez-pj5uh]

@@rickbrenner6079Milkyway is 13.6B years and we still have stars like the sun

[@asideofaioli4630]

@@FernandoRodriguez-pj5uh or we're already gone and it's just taken a bajillion years for our lives to reach us....

[@airlesstermite4240]

there’s no possible way of knowing how close it was to being the first galaxy

[@dandydanthedapperman7797]

Are you a scientist dude? Cause how would you know

[@airlesstermite4240]

@@dandydanthedapperman7797 that was more of like a “no way bro that’s insane” comment rather than me stating a fact

[@H5subway5707]

If this galaxy has only 10000 solar masses, and most likely contains only hypermassive stars that are like 100+ solar masses each (due to it existing only ~100 million years after the Big Bang), that means the whole "galaxy" probably contains only a few 100s of those stars at most, so perhaps it's better classified as a star cluster.

[@philgreco7037]

Our size compared to the Universe is the same as our understanding of it.

[@thealliesarejews]

Wow unreal. Such a small galaxy? This provides us with soo much info. Never knew that. The JWST is truly a marvel for our generation.

[@MAPLEBG]

try to make one contribution instead of whining behind ur screen

[@user-vj3gw3mi5c]

❤ awesome info

[@antonisbalakitsas8585]

​@@MAPLEBGhe didn't even whine he exclaimed the telescope's contribution to science...

[@michaelrhine3152]

It’s probably that small because it was still forming when the light we observed left it. It probably grew into full size and the light just hasn’t gotten here yet

[@mepsiemopar8991]

Not small just so far away.

[@amitt7953]

The universe is so vast that even after building increasingly super powerful telescopes which can see further and further away, we just continue to see more of the same... galaxies, galaxies and galaxies 😒

[@bobhume9470]

Hard to fathom. Like so many things about our universe, both large and small.

[@abeerzafar5]

This is the galaxy where you would find aliens!!

[@fortuner123]

13,000,000,000 years at 300,000 kilometers per second. My head is pulsing trying to absorb that. OMG

[@fuckyouyoutube2834]

It makes you wonder how much more of the universe we'll be able to see a thousand years from now.

[@etherraichu]

Unfortunately it'll be much less. Space is expanding faster than the speed of light in all directions. As time goes on, less and less light will reach us. In the far future, people will think that the milky way is the entire universe.

[@fuckyouyoutube2834]

@@etherraichu yeah the universe is expanding but that kind of like the moon moving away from the Earth, it's moving away and such a slow speed that it would take thousands of years try to move far enough where it would affect the Earth. Yes the universe is expanding but it is so massive that 100000 years from now we would still be able to see the other Galaxy.

[@rodneyking4183]

None of us will see that. We will all be dead. Your great great great great great great great.... times 50 grand kids might be alive to see it though.

[@fuckyouyoutube2834]

@@rodneyking4183 so you don't believe in reincarnation then. Well, I do.

[@youssefkriem7823]

@@etherraichuthe Milky Way also is expanding isn’t it…

[@vikramsingh1795]

Extraordinary

[@Dave50plus]

wonder if it's still there !!!!!

[@Zach-cv5ep]

Yeah,I wonder how's JD1 now,maybe no more exists long ago.

[@dingdong2103]

We just have to observe it for 13.3 billion years and we know exactly how galaxies evolve.

[@kratoskalliope]

Yes it probably is still there. Star formation has ceased though. The remaining stars that are left are red and brown dwarfs. They can last up to 3 trillion yrs. Which is why I believe civilizations will be found around these types of stars....longevity

[@josephnebeker7976]

​@@kratoskalliope 🤣

[@oman2-wb4hl]

it might have collided with another galaxy!

[@stephaniehale3379]

This is awesome keep the info coming

[@lothean2099]

I think scientists are wrong when they say looking at those galaxies is like looking in the past. Light travels in space, but doesn't light scatter. Maybe laws of the vacuum are different than laws of air. Anyway, I think we are seeing something illuminated millions of miles away. Almost like looking at someone in the distance with a flashlight. Its not like you're looking at a past image. Its hard to explain.

[@dandydanthedapperman7797]

It’s not like a wormhole just opened and you’re looking at the galaxy actually in the past. It’s just that the light hasn’t changed since it hasn’t been interferes with, so you can see what is effectively the past. But everything is happening at basically the same time.

[@blumind_web2264]

When people say the speed of light they refer to the speed of light in a vacuum, which is approximately 300 million Kilometers per second, there isn’t sufficiently dense enough particles to scatter light but it does stretch its wavelength which is why we can’t see some of these phenomena with the naked eye. Because light has a fixed speed and its constant any light that reaches us from distant galaxies is presenting itself to us as it was when it left its source it hasn’t changed at all along its journey so technically everything we see out in deep space is old data and we’re playing a catch up game

[@Sirrichz28]

I just love hearing/learning this kind of stuff ... space is SO mind bending HUGE you learn of a new planet or galaxy thats so far away that traveling at the speed of light i believe is 186,000 miles a second you won't make it in your lifetime even if your space ship left right after your birth & you live to be 100 😄...there's no way were the only living thing out there on our tiny little planet

[@ericsbuds]

oh my. i have always thought the first galaxies would have been MASSIVE.

[@roytallow6784]

The way it looks millions of galaxies in Outer Space ! More Life out there !? 🌌🎆🌌🎇🌌🌀🌌

[@user-ij2zt4ss3z]

As we get older, so will are vision.

[@andywei3092]

There must be more and further out there, we're only limited to our progress in telescopes

[@boydmaddocks838]

We can make a telescope, to see the edge of time & ponder our universe & at the same time hate people with the intensity of a thousand suns, whom don’t superficially look the same as “ us” . Duality of mankind is truly astounding !

[@MS-vn2pb]

🙄

[@koloradokiller]

*Methuselah has entered the chat* 13.3B years? That's cute

[@mojixart]

i want to know that how we know that a particular galaxy or star is "n" light years from earth.please explain sir.

[@dandydanthedapperman7797]

Probably red/blue shift. As things get further away they change color.

[@mojixart]

@@dandydanthedapperman7797 what if that galaxy or star is already red due to its properties???

[@dandydanthedapperman7797]

@@mojixart well then you have hue

[@mojixart]

@@dandydanthedapperman7797 ohhh thank you very much for helping😄❤

[@MohdJuberAhmad]

Quality Content as Always, keep it up 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ArtAlpha108]

1 Question: Why did it have solar mass lesser than galaxies today!? Shouldn't it have more because the Mass would be condensed in the early Unniverse? Did mass increase as Universe Expanded and can it increase!? Doesn't it break law of energy?

[@aamirrazak3467]

Awesome work from jwst, feels like it’s making major discoveries each week

[@fredlandry6170]

Truly amazing.

[@WhyYouBlockMe]

This is the type and size of galaxy scientists expected to see at the "beginning". But most of these early galaxies are big so it's highly unlikely the universe formed with a big bang.

[@MrP316]

It's truly unbelievable what this telescope can see. It's hard to wrap your mind around it.

[@asideofaioli4630]

I'm just glad you're trying to use protection

[@Brent6437]

If we only knew what we thought we knew. We no very little.

[@petergreen5337]

beautiful lesson and helpful documentary

[@lise-annetijerino5624]

Fascinating

[@dr.hawkraps8457]

Atta' boy, Jimmy!

[@haddow777]

It's funny this gives all these bits of information as facts we've learned about this galaxy, but most of those claims are just guess based on prediction models and have nothing to do with the image. It's mass, the number of news stars formed, etc. are just estimated guesses of what galaxies of that time period would be like

[@ameliawarfield5637]

Very informative.

[@turtletitan62]

That's amazing tbh. To think how close to the big bang that galaxy is crazy to wrap your head around.

[@shaneskaalerud3371]

That's fantastic but what about the closest galaxy to us.

[@imberus5801]

Andromeda, that's been known for ages

[@shaneskaalerud3371]

@@imberus5801 yes that's the name. Ty

[@mehameha4453]

So we are looking at 13.3 billion year old light from our 4.5 billion year old planet. Fascinating. Seeing things before we existed. Cool.

[@yugogurl6911]

I would like to have the scientists behind this documentary to prove every sentence of this script. It seems a lot of assumptions were made.

[@geebrewer8186]

interesting it is so old, yet still forming some stars.

[@jamesmorris1807]

It's really another universe that's past the edge of the cosmological horizon void .

[@YaBoy_Eddie]

Sometimes I think we're living in a black hole

[@muzosh]

That's weird..

[@tigerwarsaw99]

How come? tell me more. I may wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[@3putt548]

My brain is way to small to comprehend this!

[@shawntolliver6485]

Hey I'm with you on that, this stuff is brain-busting but absolutely fascinating !!!!!!!

[@shawntolliver6485]

I simply don't understand the fact that they're saying that's we are looking back billions of years and our past !!!! ???????

[@shawntolliver6485]

Well then theoretically, if we can look at our past hey we should be able to glimpse the future as well , well is anyone riding my train , let's chat and let me know where you're at with my hypothesis ??!?!!??

[@kennethwilson8633]

Maybe or we are just seeing as far as we can right now…the universe could be a lot bigger and older than we think.

[@ScratchinAway]

the line that got me was “the light is so faint it was invisible to previous telescopes” because, then…..what else is so faint its invisible to JWST?!? 13.3 billion is wayyy older than once thought, so how far back does it really go?!

[@boutek]

Jd1 was discovered in 2014. Long before JWST.

[@moveitstime]

We study every galaxy's past!

[@ThePlazee]

“ONLY around 10,000 times that of our sun”😊

[@grimrichman]

So it’s a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away? ….sick

[@trepplee]

This channel is one of the best! ❤

[@chapalsaha]

Thank you for the information of universe....

[@MacGee28]

Hello from Earth, JD1!

[@arjitbisht2765]

JD1-- from 200 million years after big bang

[@kingaustin3927]

What’s the smaller more dim blue light to the right tho?

[@nickkirastoulis4617]

don't forget, the universe probably goes infinitely past the edge we can observe. we can only see what 14 billion light years away. there's probably infinite lightyears more we can't see.

[@chuparustam9073]

Can't we see on other planet by this telescope if it could see that??? Please explain

[@mrnikk666]

Thats like from us to dinosaurs. Its so close to what we perceive as the beginning. Only when we find life on our own sun, will we understand life in a way the universe respects.

[@arandomguy7620]

Now that galaxy might have evolved to be one of the largest galaxies in the entire universe. But we might discover that in the next 13.8 billion years.

[@jamesfrost7465]

Amazing.

[@kalasatwater2224]

Big bang is over

[@Frank-ul1qs]

There's no time in space. Its always been here.

[@Carsheaven62]

He is our news reporter😅

[@neilk1121]

This kind of makes me think of the Time Dilation quandary as depicted in the movie: Interstellar

[@politicalscientist8880]

So interesting... despite u derstanding so little

[@trentonoliver6330]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

[@fabians.6061]

So we found the edge of infinity?

[@abhishekgarg5286]

Cool

[@user-jx7by1fi6h]

Meanwhile folks in JD1 seeing milkyway like: this light coming from 13.7 billions light years away

[@aleks8283]

Wow, thats a tiny galaxy. I wonder what is left of it now? Since we are only seeing ot as it was 13.3bn years ago

[@samueldelgado1458]

That's where the Greys come from

[@rayraycthree5784]

The JWST observations may be indicating that the universe is older than we think because there is stuff farther out that 13.8B years. What if just like a short or open at the end of a transmission line causes a reflection, what if there is nothing beyond the edge of the universe, including no space time field, and those > 13.8B JWST images are just refections over time from inside that expanding universe interface to nothing? The curvature and focal lengths might explain some of the size inconsistencies

[@sandeepmoger8973]

Some other day new telescope will find some new galaxies which are far than this ..

[@15Kilo]

And a huge star right next to it that looks the same size

[@patrickrevins9519]

Could the jwst find the voyager 1 and 2?

[@suhaibzia00000]

Only one thing. WHO IS BEHIND ALL OF THIS, WHO IS CONTROLLING ALL OF THIS.

[@aschenkielbayocboc]

"Only a few Hundred millions years old"

[@toughenupfluffy7294]

So JB1 is forming suns as we speak, 13.3 billion years ago. Okay, mind blown...

[@christinebethencourt6197]

JWST is the pioneer of fabulous discoveries 💫🪐

[@ApteraEV2024]

Ohh cool is that a baby Saturn emoji ??❤

[@lazymaverick5118]

Here is a question. If the Universe started from 1 single point, doesn’t that mean that the light of all these stars didn’t have to travel. Instead, as the universe expanded the stars/galaxies just got further away but because the universe expanded slower than the speed of light… we are actually seeing things as they are? Am I making sense here?

[@JungleJargon]

Distance is less where there is no matter and light passes through space much faster where the parameters of time and distance are unaffected by gravity.

[@luisalejandrohernandezmaya254]

Vegeta: It's over 9000 the sun mass. 🎉🎉

[@paulbfields8284]

Sounds like the narrator is an old DJ from the WMMS days in Cleveland… Jeff Kinsbach

[@mohammadqayyum937]

Or the age of universe is much more than we think