The Big Bang theory is still on solid ground despite pseudoscientific attempts to twist JWSTs findings.
The James Webb Space Telescope JWST has not disproved the Big Bang despite an article about a pseudoscientific theory that went viral in August and which mischaracterized quotes from an astrophysicist to create a false narrative that the Big Bang did not happen.
Although the James Webb Space Telescope has only been conducting science operations for a few months, it has already made some iconic discoveries including the detection of what could be some of the earliest galaxies ever seen that existed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. Although issues with calibrating the instruments might mean that some of these galaxies are not as distant as first thought JWST has almost certainly broken the record with some of them.
JWST is designed to find the very earliest galaxies in the universe Allison Kirkpatrick an astrophysicist at the University of Kansas told . One of the things that it found is that those galaxies are possibly more massive than we thought they would be while another surprising thing is that it revealed that these galaxies have a lot of structure and we did not think galaxies were this well organized so early in the universe.
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