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James Webb Discovers a Nearly Pristine Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe


A galaxy seen 13 billion years ago has just 1/240th the Sun's oxygen abundance, offering a rare glimpse of what the ancestors of the Milky Way's faintest neighbors may have looked like.

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