Ep. 684: Too Big, Too Soon: Massive Early Galaxies Defy Expectations
Astronomy Cast
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The Gravitational Lensing of Galaxies
We have seen the largest number of them so far through this gravitational lensing. It's basically the low hanging fruit. It takes fewer orbits and you being honestly get a whole lot more science for the hour if you look at a galaxy cluster. Now with JWST, they're looking at galaxies that just happened to be oriented just right behind these clusters. In some cases originated just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
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