James Webb finds an even older galaxy

Plus: YouTuber turns a treadmill into a PS4 controller Jul 28, 2022 [Blueprint]( There’s nothing like being a record breaker (I would assume, having never actually been one myself). But now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken that one step further and gone and [broken its own record]( incidentally, it only set in the first place last week. Overachiever, much? JWST broke its own record by observing a galaxy 35 billion light-years from Earth. In layman's terms, that means it existed a mere 235 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy has been (catchily) dubbed CEERS-93316, but NASA says this is still just the beginning. It hopes the telescope will break its own record many times over in the coming weeks. I mean, as bangs go, this is quite big. But before you watch JWST reach for the stars (and far, far beyond), have you ever wondered what to do with that treadmill you enthusiastically bought after Christmas, that’s now gathering dust in your front room? Well, wonder no more — just turn it into a PS4 controller! [Check out how a YouTuber did exactly that](. Good morning. I’m Alice, an Editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s get started. [Play]VIDEO OF THE DAY [YouTuber turns a treadmill into a PS4 controller for fitness purposes]( [Treadmill into PS4 controller.]( [Must Read]MUST READ [James Webb breaks its own record for the most distant galaxy ever observed.]( [James Webb breaks own record.]( Yep, [James Webb has done it again](. Already! We’re still only days into JWST’s scientific operations, and the giant infrared observatory has already broken its own record for the most distant galaxy ever observed. For those who missed it last week (where have you been?!), the team observed a galaxy that existed 400 million years after the Big Bang. To top that (in spectacular style), this new analysis has revealed a galaxy a mere 235 million years after the Big Bang. It is located 35 billion light-years away from Earth. The researchers behind the new discovery, from the University of Edinburgh in the U.K., compiled a catalog of early galaxies observed by Webb to investigate the luminosity function of galaxies that formed shortly after the Big Bang. → They said they hadn’t actually planned to observe the most distant galaxy known to humans, so the new finding was a happy accident. Some accident! [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Linkedin]( [SCIENCE]SCIENCE [A breakthrough study reveals pits and caves on the Moon you could call 'home']( Planetary scientists at UCLA have [discovered pits on the moon]( that they say could be base camps for lunar exploration and long-term habitation. In fact, they have found more than 200 pits. 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