The Open Universe

Episode 11: The JWST Revolution, Part 3: Is the Universe Broken?


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Our exploration continues into the world of CEERS, one of the major flagship surveys of the early JWST data. Now, astronomers are confronted by yet more first generation galaxies that seem to defy scientific consensus -- a group of objects so luminous that their formation should not have been possible based on standard theories of galaxy formation. So, is the Universe truly broken? Or is it simply playing a cruel trick on our ability to locate how far these galaxies actually are....?

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The Open UniverseBy Sownak Bose & Ana Bonaca