“With Webb, we are able to see farther than humans ever have before, and it looks nothing like what we predicted, which is both challenging and exciting,” Dr. Naidu said. MoM-z14 is one of a growing group of surprisingly bright galaxies in the early Universe — 100 times more than theoretical studies predicted before the launch of Webb. A small percentage of these stars have shown high amounts of nitrogen, which is also showing up in some of Webb’s observations of early galaxies, including MoM-z14. It turns out we are seeing some of the same features, like this unusual nitrogen enrichment,” Dr. Naidu said. MoM-z14 also shows signs of clearing out the thick, primordial hydrogen fog of the early Universe in the space around itself.