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Secondary reporting describes blueshifted absorption in three early galaxies as evidence of outward-moving metal-enriched gas. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:88cad2d0cd0d7ae8dbad8f8df112a0dfd6d1ba0d47bb1000b9b4898d5aed940c

The absorption lines were “blueshifted” relative to the galaxies' redshift, indicating that the gas was moving outward from the galaxies and carrying oxygen, carbon and other heavy elements into intergalactic space.