A brief history of the cosmic distance record - Big Think

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• – The cosmic distance record was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in 1929.
• – The record was set by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1998 with a distance to the most distant galaxy observed, GN-z11.
• – In 2020, the James Webb Space Telescope surpassed the Hubble Space Telescope's record, measuring the distance to galaxy CEERS-93316 at 13.5 billion light-years away.