Ep. 684: Too Big, Too Soon: Massive Early Galaxies Defy Expectations
Astronomy Cast
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The Cosm-White-Quave Background
What were they expecting to see? I'm sure as they probably spent more time building models trying to make expectations, figure out their calibration before they took those first images. So what we're guilty of always doing is looking at the Cosm-White-Quave background, which is the rabbit hole we shall not go down. We figured there'd be a whole lot of 80-bit, little tiny stuff that was more matching the average distribution of warmer spots in the cosm- white Quave background. And so we made assumptions based largely on the distribution of hot and cold patches in theCosm-white-quave background.
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