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From the post:
>The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant galaxy that shouldn't exist.
Using this exceptionally powerful telescope, a team of researchers were able to peer back in time and observe this never-before-seen spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, as it looked just two billion years after the Big Bang.
The farther out in space astronomers look using telescopes like the James Webb, the further back in time they're seeing, almost all the way to the Big Bang itself.
A two-billion-year-old galaxy is considered young on a cosmic scale, but the Big Wheel's size at that point in history suggested that it should have been much older.
The researchers determined that this galaxy stretched nearly 98,000 light years across, roughly the same size as our much-older home galaxy, the Milky Way, is today.
Archive: https://archive.today/Hyzl3
From the post:
>>The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a giant galaxy that shouldn't exist.
Using this exceptionally powerful telescope, a team of researchers were able to peer back in time and observe this never-before-seen spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, as it looked just two billion years after the Big Bang.
The farther out in space astronomers look using telescopes like the James Webb, the further back in time they're seeing, almost all the way to the Big Bang itself.
A two-billion-year-old galaxy is considered young on a cosmic scale, but the Big Wheel's size at that point in history suggested that it should have been much older.
The researchers determined that this galaxy stretched nearly 98,000 light years across, roughly the same size as our much-older home galaxy, the Milky Way, is today.
