NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures clearest map yet of cosmic web

James Webb Space Telescope. PIC COURTESY/NASA

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has created the clearest map ever produced of the cosmic web - the vast structure that connects galaxies across the universe.

The team traced this network back to a time when the universe was just one billion years old. The breakthrough came through COSMOS-Web, the largest survey conducted by JWST to date.

Researchers analysed more than 164,000 galaxies to reconstruct how the cosmic web evolved over 13.7 billion years. The result was a dramatically sharper view of the structure than anything previously achieved.

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