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Ben Turner

After 2 years in space, the James Webb telescope has broken cosmology. Can it be fixed?

An artist's illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Something is awry in our expanding cosmos.

Nearly a century ago, the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the balloon-like inflation of the universe and the accelerating rush of all galaxies away from each other. Following that expansion backward in time led to our current best understanding of how everything began — the Big Bang. 

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