The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen
The stars may have winked into existence just 800 million years after the Big Bang
![James Webb Space Telescope first deep field image](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/100622_lg_glob-cluster_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
The James Webb Space Telescope observed thousands of galaxies that were magnified by a galaxy cluster in the foreground. Around just one of those galaxies, astronomers may have spotted some of the earliest stars yet seen.
NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI