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The telescope that keeps finding galaxies too old to exist
Every new deep field pushes the first galaxies earlier — and forces cosmologists to ask whether the standard model of the universe is missing something fundamental.
By Rafael Alvarez · 2 min read
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The James Webb telescope — one year of impossible images
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A telescope just captured the birth of a solar system
The sharpest image yet of a protoplanetary disk taking shape around a young star.
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Astronomers have found the most distant known object
Light from the newly catalogued galaxy left it 300 million years after the Big Bang.
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Black holes at the centre of everything
Every large galaxy appears to have one. The question is no longer whether they exist — it's what they're doing to the galaxies around them.
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