Journey to The MoM-z14 Galaxy—The Farthest Detected to Date | Webb Telescope

Journey to The MoM-z14 Galaxy—The Farthest Detected to Date | Webb Telescope

This video is a 3D visualization of galaxies observed with the NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES. 

This visualization includes 9,500 galaxies from a portion of the JADES image that covers the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) South field.

At the beginning of this video, we fly by galaxies in the nearby Universe. Here, galaxies appear larger and more defined in structure. As we pass them, we see more distant galaxies that appear more distorted and smaller in size.

The video ends on the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0. This galaxy has a redshift of 14.32, making it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy. This corresponds to a time less than 300 million years after the big bang.

Credits:
Visualization: C. Nieves (STScI), F. Summers (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), G. Bacon (STScI); Science: JADES Team, K. Hainline (University of Arizona)

Duration: 45 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 28, 2026

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