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James Webb telescope spots rare 'missing link' galaxy at the dawn of time

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Galaxy 9422 was spotted just one billion years after the Big Bang .

It is filled with massive stars that are twice as hot as those typically found in the local universe.

These exotic stars are bombarding the gas clouds that surround them with enormous quantities of light particles (photons) Astronomers aren't certain when the very first globules of stars began to clump into the galaxies we see today .