The Red Shift, Is It Really Old?

Astronomers have been poring through one of these deep field pictures from james webb. This is of smacks o seven, two, three, which is about five billion light years away. We expected the galaxies to form gradually, that you'd have a blob of stars and they would tract another blob of stars. But instead we're seeing when we look at these galaxies that are really, really far away and really far into the early universe, is much bigger and brighter than we expected.