Webb Discovers Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen

Feb 18, 2026 - 16:00
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Webb Discovers Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen
This Webb image shows the jellyfish galaxy COSMOS2020-635829; the dashed circles mark the four extraplanar sources that are identified in the tail of the galaxy. Image credit: Roberts et al., doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae3824.

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy with sweeping gaseous ‘tentacles’ in a galaxy cluster at redshift of 1.156, meaning we’re seeing it as it was approximately 8.5 billion years ago.

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