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Galaxies Are Older Than We Thought — That's A Big Deal

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The Origin Story of the Universe

The New James Web Telescope, or JWST, has taken the most distant images of our universe we have ever seen. Scientists are seeing that galaxies show up way earlier than we thought possible. As our tools become more advanced, will we have to rewrite the origin story of our entire universe? Or do we just need more imagination when it comes to how to use the physics we already have?

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