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… but it may no longer be there
Speed, Distance, Time and Relativity all influence the the Testing Experiment, and it takes a while to study them in their relation to the Object in question.
In the meantime someone may use a possibly incorrect term in describing that Object.
How do we know that this “red blob” self-identifies as a galaxy?
Fun fact: Not only are you at the exact center of the universe (Sorry, Galileo, you were right about Aristotle being wrong, but Cardinal Nicolas Di Cusa was closer), but you are at the very oldest part of the universe. It’s a consequence of relativity. Since the entire world is traveling away from you at a speed proportional to its distance from you, the further you imagine being from where you are now, the more the effects of traveling quickly have prevented the matter at that place from aging.
“Ah,” you say, “but if I went there FASTER than the speed of light!” and I finish off your sentence, “you’d be going backwards in time to when the universe was younger!” “But what if I just materialized there?” Congratulations! You’d be at an older part of the universe... but only because from your perspective, our part of the universe would be at some point in our distant past.
But what if I kept some sort of magic link where Earthperson and I were billions of light years apart? Each of you would perceive the link as coming from the distant future, at a point that was rushing away from the other so quickly that the age of that distant end would be surpassed due to its aging less quickly due to it flying away so quickly.
It always seems like saying you’re at the oldest, most central point of the universe is just some trick that could be conquered by some impossible magic.... but it’s always another impossibly magic task to find somewhere in the universe that’s older.
The Webb telescope sensors record data which is analyzed in computers programmed with software that feature alogarithims written by scientists with preconceived notions. the images ultimately seen are not actual photos but computer generated images.
The oldest galaxy is called Pelosi.
We’ve been told that, because the universe is expanding, the farther out we look, the older the objects are. It’s wwrong. If the universe started with the big bang then everything we see is the same age, but with one caveat. Because light takes time to get here the farther away an observed object is, the younger the object appears.
The nearest objects are the oldest ones we can observe, and we don’t need fancier telescopes for doing that.
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The oldest galaxy is in the Japanese quadrant....