Can the James Webb Space Telescope See Galaxies Above the Universe’s Horizon?

Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began beaming data back to Earth in 2022, it has had a profound impact on astronomy. Among its most revolutionary achievements has been the observation of some of the most distant galaxies ever seen. However, because light does not travel instantaneously, but instead travels at about 300 million meters (985 million feet) per second in a vacuum, we see these galaxies not as they appear today, but as they appeared billions of years ago.

Furthermore, our universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. So we have to assume that the furthest ...