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Science 27 min

The James Webb Telescope Is Rewriting the Universe

A ten-billion-dollar mirror found galaxies that shouldn't exist

The first deep-field images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed galaxies so massive and so early they defied the standard model of cosmology. For a while, it looked like everything we knew about the universe was wrong. The truth turned out to be stranger — and more interesting — than a clean overthrow.

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