James Webb Space Telescope Is Seeing Stuff That Shouldn't Be There And Astronomers Are Puzzled

James Webb Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has recently provided humanity with a variety of first-ever glances into the furthest regions of our cosmos. 

And as might be expected, a number of these astounding new discoveries have prompted additional queries than they need provided answers. 
 
For example, scientists once thought that the earliest galaxies within the cosmos were little, slightly chaotic, and irregular systems. However, JWST-captured imagination has shown those galaxies to be spectacularly Brobdingnagian, additionally to being balanced and grammatical – a result that defies and can in all probability rewrite long-held beliefs regarding the birth of our universe. 
 
Astronomer Garth Illingworth of the University of CA, Santa Cruz, told WaPo that "the models simply do not predict this." "How does one try this within the universe at such AN early time? however does one type such a large number of stars therefore quickly?" 

According to WaPo, previous pictures of the universe, taken by the Edwin Powell Hubble house Telescope before it absolutely was oust, looked as if it would validate the common belief that early galaxies were chaotic, confused places. On the idea of Hubble's restricted capabilities, the JWST, however, looks to demonstrate that such discoveries were AN illusion. 
 
"We thought the first universe was this chaotic place wherever there is of these clumps of star formation, and things are all a-jumble," the house Telescope Science Institute's Dan Coe told WaPo, adding later that, before the JWST was commenced orbit, Hubble's imagination was "missing all the colder stars and also the older stars. we have a tendency to were very solely seeing the new young ones." 
Although the scientific world was shocked by these discoveries, there's completely no reason to fret. There's an extended history of great technological advances in physics and different fields resulting in periods of fast scientific discovery. We have a tendency to appear to be seeing one among those turning points immediately, and although breakthroughs are decades away, today's discoveries could function as the inspiration for them. 
 
And essentially, findings like these show that the JWST is accomplishing exactly what scientists had hoped for it to: it's exposing new, fascinating data regarding our mind bogglingly huge cosmos whereas additionally providing answers to long-standing puzzles and move new ones.

 

Reference(s): WashingtonPost