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Space photo of the week: Record-breaking James Webb telescope image captures 1,678 galaxy groups at once

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered next to the constellation Sextans .

It found groups of galaxies up to 12 billion light-years away.

The universe is 13.8 billion years old , so these galaxies date back to the universe's early years .

This largest-ever sample of 1,678 galaxy groups is helping astronomers figure out what the early universe was like.