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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by rjrodger on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:09PM (#34360286)
Visible light was scattering off densely packed electrons up to about 300k years after the Big Bang - so I guess - white.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by ben_w on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:29PM (#34360501)
White, redshifted so hard it's the blackest black we ever experience.

(I want to add a H2G2 joke here, but I can't figure the right way to reference making God disappear in a puff of logic related to the Babelfish…)

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