Earth-sized planet or LHS 475 b is relatively close, at only 41 light-years away, in the constellation Octans, NASA researchers say, but couldn't confirm if it has an atmosphere.
"We're potentially looking at the most distant starlight that anyone has ever seen," Rohan Naidu of Harvard Center for Astrophysics says of GLASS-z13, which is believed to date back to 300 million years after Big Bang.
"Every image is a new discovery," says NASA administrator Bill Nelson as the space agency unveils a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope.
First image from $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance and will be followed with four more images on Tuesday.
Micrometeoroid strikes newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment, NASA says of May incident.
James Webb Space Telescope, the world's biggest and most powerful space telescope, arrives at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the Sun, almost 1.5 million km away from the Earth, says NASA.
It is expected to beam back new clues that will help scientists understand more about the origins of the Universe and Earth-like planets beyond our solar system.
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