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Webb shatters galaxy distance records

EARLY RESULTS FROM the James Webb Space Telescope seem to indicate that massive and luminous galaxies had already formed within a couple hundred million years of the Big Bang. If confirmed, these discoveries could seriously challenge current cosmological thinking; however, for now that's still a big ‘if’.

As galaxies’ light moves through expanding space, the wavelengths stretch (redshift) all

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