In April, astronomers announced their observation of a galaxy in a moment of time just 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Discovered in the murk of the early Universe, it represents a time just 235 million years after the Big Bang ...

The discovery of the galaxy candidate, named CEERS-93316, marks the beginning of something wonderful: Webb is poised to throw the early Universe wide open, giving us an unprecedented view into the dark and mysterious reaches at the beginning of, well, everything.

Because light takes time to travel, any light reaching us from distant space represents an event buried deep in the past; so, in effect, light is a time machine for distant reaches of the Universe.

Commencing nearly 250 million years after the Big Bang, it filled the entire Universe with an opaque cloud of hydrogen atoms.

The team ruled out other potential explanations for the dim, red glow, and their analysis suggests that star formation in the galaxy candidate had to have started sometime between 120 and 220 million years after the Big Bang.