A tiny red smudge caught in the distant background of the James Webb Space Telescope's first 'deep field' image could transform our understanding of the early universe, astronomers say.The inconspicuous blob is an ancient, unnamed galaxy that is 13.1 billion years old — only several hundred million years younger than the birth of the universe. Of all the galaxies captured in the image, it is the furthest away from Earth.It was captured in the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever recorded, and released to the world as part of the $10 billion (£7.4 million) observatory's .
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