Ranked by light-travel time. JADES-GS-z14-0 at z=14.32 leads โ we are seeing it as it existed about 290 million years after the Big Bang. Here's the full top 10.
Hubble at 34, Kepler's 2,600 exoplanets, James Webb's deepest infrared views, plus Nancy Grace Roman and Euclid โ the space telescopes that rewrote astronomy.
Hubble launched with a flawed mirror in 1990 โ how STS-61's COSTAR fix and four more servicing missions turned a humiliation into the greatest telescope in history.