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Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist

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  1. Eric_the_Cerise
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    The title should be "JWST Spots Even More..."; it's been finding "impossible" galaxies pretty much since They took the lens cap off. There is something fundamentally wrong with (or at least,...

    The title should be "JWST Spots Even More..."; it's been finding "impossible" galaxies pretty much since They took the lens cap off.

    There is something fundamentally wrong with (or at least, lacking in) our current model of the BBT, and the JWST is putting a spotlight on it. If it gets destroyed by a meteor tomorrow, this discovery already made it worth the price.

    Best time ever to be a scientist is when well-documented observations blatantly contradict well-established theory.

    We are all about to learn something really new-and-interesting about the Universe.

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