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  • Webb Space Telescope detects universe’s most distant complex organic molecules

    Undergraduate student Lily Kettler, left, professor Joaquin Viera and graduate student Kedar Phadke photographed inside an astronomical observatory

    Undergraduate student Lily Kettler, left, professor Joaquin Vieira and graduate student Kedar Phadke are part of an international team that detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth – the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist.

    Photo by Fred Zwicky

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  • Editor’s notes

    To reach Joaquin Vieira, call 217-244-6795; email jvieira@illinois.edu.

    The paper “Large variations in aromatic molecule emission resolved in a dust-rich galaxy” is available online. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05998-6.

    All JWST data is available from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes under program #1355. The reduced JWST data products are available from TEMPLATES collaboration public data repository. JWST data were reduced using the publicly-available software.