SMRTR Science & EngineeringMay 12, 2026Interesting Engineering

NASA’s James Webb telescope maps most detailed cosmic web across 13.7 billion years

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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers created the most detailed map of the universe's cosmic web, tracing galaxy networks back 13.7 billion years. Webb revealed structures Hubble couldn't distinguish, identifying 164,000 galaxies with greater precision — and the complete dataset is now publicly available to scientists worldwide.

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