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Hubble's surprise discovery in early universe paves way for Webb Telescope

The team was looking for answers about when and how the first stars and galaxies in the universe were formed after the Big Bang

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The result was achieved using the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. (Source: NASA)

Shibu Tripathi New Delhi
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday said that the latest results from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early universe took place sooner than previously thought. The new result limits the probe area of the Hubble, paving way for the James Webb Telescope to further the research about the origin of the universe. 

A team of European astronomers found no evidence of the first generation of stars, known as Population-III stars, as far back as when the universe was just 500 million years old. The team was