The James Webb Space Telescope is making it possible to detect more celestial objects we previously wouldn’t be able to, including ones that can further our knowledge on how our universe began. A team of astronomers, for instance, detected a “rich population of brown dwarf candidates” outside our own galaxy for the first time. The image above was captured using the telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
We already know of the roughly 3,000 brown dwarfs inside the Milky Way, but Webb made it possible to find candidates 200,000 light years away from our planet.
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