Webb Telescope Reveals How Light Emerged From the Fog of the Early Universe
James Webb Space Telescope has been surprising the world with its jaw-dropping images since July last year. This expansive vista of the sky between the constellations of Pisces and Andromeda contains more than 20,000 galaxies. The perspective has provided astronomers with more than just an eye-catching sight; it has also assisted them in understanding what precipitated the Epoch of Reionization, the time when the opaque cosmos gave way to the transparent one. The early universe was shrouded in a dense gas that constrained the quantity of light that could pass through it. When the universe was between 400 million and one billion years old, during the Epoch of Reionization, the gaseous universe started to clear up until it was completely transparent to light. Thus, the Epoch of Reionization was essential to our understanding of what exactly occurred. The mysterious period is the focus of the Square Kilometre Array, which will soon be the biggest radio telescope in the world. C...