#after big bang

New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100 million years after the Big Bang, with water already present in some planet-forming disks.

Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain sight in one of the deepest fields ever imaged by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

Just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, MXDFz4.4 -- a galaxy 100 times smaller than the Milky Way -- was blasting ionizing light through the neutral hydrogen that once shrouded everything, giving astronomers their closest-ever look at cosmic reion