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JWST now owns the top 8 spots for most distant objects

One year ago, in 2022, Hubble still held the cosmic distance record. A section of the GOODS-N field, which contains the galaxy GN-z11, the most distant galaxy ever observed. Originally, Hubble data indicated a redshift of 11.1, a distance of 32.1 billion light-years, and an inferred age of th...