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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.

: Analysis of the light showed high amounts of ionized oxygen and hydrogen, signaling that the first generations of stars had already begun "seeding" the universe with the elements necessary for future planets and life. Today, serves as a vital milepost

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: When JWST finally turned its gold-plated mirrors toward

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,

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.