As I hoped, the JWST is starting to show us what we didn't know.
And one of the things has to do with the universe's earliest galaxies. According to Hubble, these were small, slightly chaotic and misshapen.
JWST is showing us large, well-organized galaxies, demonstrating that Hubble's results were limitations in the instrumentation.
What does this mean? One possibility is that the universe is older than we thought and these galaxies aren't that early.
Another possibility is that we're overestimating the age of these galaxies because dust and debris is messing with the red shift values we use to calculate them. This seems to be the most likely, but a more exciting explanation may yet exist.
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