🌌 How the Webb Telescope is Rewriting What We Know About the Early Universe, One Galaxy at a Time

Feb. 6, 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched with a series of goals in mind. One of the most important was understanding the early universe. While the telescope hasn't even been operation a year yet, a strange portrait is emerging: galaxies are larger than predicted, and there are more of them than we thought. It's all new and astrophysicists are still piecing together what it all means, but in the hunt for Cosmic Dawn, it's a strange new wrinkle that has the astronomical community excited.

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How the Webb Telescope is Rewriting What We Know About the Early Universe, One Galaxy at a Time

At some point, the first stars formed. Then came small galaxies. Like a celestial Macondo, each galaxy became a hometown for stellar family trees. When these ancestors receded away in an expanding Universe, their light stretched into obscurity, and only now have astronomers begun to see them. The early galaxies also germinated gasses whose glow we’re only now detecting, visible thanks to the same science that governs the fluorescent lights in the window of your favorite bodega.

Once several generations of stars grew and died within these galaxies, which kept a rich inheritance of stellar fusion byproducts from slipping away into the void of space, the Universe had enough heavy elements to make life on Earth, and the world we know.

What happened in the beginning to bring us to what we see today? With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers can investigate “Cosmic Dawn” like never before. The observatory has been online for less than a year, but in that time, the quest to understand our cosmic genealogy has taken unexpected turns.

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HBO
‘The Last of Us’ Episode 4 Reimagines a Classic Zombie Trope

The Last of Us has always had a firm grasp on its themes. From the original game to its sequel to the HBO adaptation, key overarching messages are underlined across countless moments. The moral ambiguity of what we do to survive, the power of found family, and the importance of community ripple throughout the narrative.

But the biggest theme echoes throughout every confrontation and fight in the game, and it takes the spotlight in Episode 4 with a character unlike any other.

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Space
Astronomers Find a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet With a Violent Past

Astronomers say they’ve found another potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star.

Wolf 1069b is about the same mass as Earth, so its gravity should be pretty similar. Don’t picture bright, sunny plains and beaches, though. Any alien life forms on its surface must live in an unending dim red daylight. And everything astronomers know about Wolf 1069b so far points to a lonely world with a violent past.

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News
Nissan’s Convertible EV Concept Looks Like It’s Straight Out of ‘Tron’

Nissan first debuted the Max-Out concept in November 2021 through a virtual teaser. Now, the Japanese automaker has produced a physical prototype of the EV roadster and will have it on display for a month at its global headquarters.

Besides the Max-Out, Nissan previously revealed the Hang-Out that’s meant to be a mobile living room, and the Surf-Out that’s an all-terrain SUV concept designed for adventures.

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DC UNIVERSE
‘Superman: Legacy’ Teaser Hints at a Radical Direction for the Man of Steel

When James Gunn announced 'Superman: Legacy' for 2025, he used the cover of one of the best Superman comics ever. There's good reason why.

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