The famed James Webb Space Telescope, launched eight months ago and orbiting the sun a million miles from Earth, has started bringing up a number of questions for astronomers as its striking images flood in.
Unsurprisingly, the telescope has delivered some intriguing and exciting observations of the very distant universe. Surprisingly, these observations are not what astronomers thought they would be, as was first reported in the Washington Post.
Some of the first images the telescope has been capturing are of extremely distant and "early" galaxies. These were believed to be small, a little chaotic, and misshapen systems. After the James Webb Space Telescope snapped some incredible images, these galaxies appear to be impressively large, balanced, and well-structured. All of this poses astronomers to scratch their heads in unison.
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