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Everything changed with the arrival of the . Unlike its predecessors, JWST’s NIRCam instrument was designed specifically to see the stretched, "redshifted" light from this era.

Here is a story of discovery centered on that distant frontier: The Echo of the First Stars Everything changed with the arrival of the

: Surprisingly, JWST found more of these distant galaxies than anyone expected. This suggests the early universe was much more efficient at creating light and structure than our old models predicted. This suggests the early universe was much more

For decades, astronomers peered through the Hubble Space Telescope, searching for the "cosmic dawn"—the moment the first stars flickered to life. They found a faint smudge in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a galaxy later confirmed to exist at . To Hubble, it was just a ghostly hint, a pixelated whisper of the past. To Hubble, it was just a ghostly hint,

Today, serves as a vital milepost. It is the boundary where the "Dark Ages" ended and the "Age of Reionization" began, turning the universe transparent and paving the way for the stars we see tonight.

When JWST finally turned its gold-plated mirrors toward the same patch of sky, the "8.7z" galaxy was no longer a mystery. The data revealed: