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- An international team of 48 astronomers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst discovered galaxies formed one billion years after the Big Bang.
- Their study, published February 17, 2026, identifies 70 star-forming galaxies dating back nearly 13 billion years and rich in metals.
- The team confirmed the findings with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), linking them to ultrabright and older quiescent galaxies.
