‘The Early Universe is Nothing like We expected’ according to New Images from JWST | Live Science


The Cosmic Gems is one of the most highly magnified objects in space, thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration)

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed five extremely dense proto-globular clusters along a hair-thin arc of glittering stars. The discovery could help them understand how the earliest galaxies formed.

Source: ‘The early universe is nothing like we expected’: James Webb telescope reveals ‘new understanding’ of how galaxies formed at cosmic dawn

It is both fascinating as well as a little intimidating to live in a time when all the big questions of humanity are one by one being answered by science. No?

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